An Analysis of Biography Recount Texts
in English Textbooks for Senior High School Grade 10
th (Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective)A RESEARCH PAPER
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ABSTRACT
An Analysis of Biographical Recount Texts in English Textbooks
for Senior High School Grade X
(Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective)
This study focused on the analysis of Biographical Recount texts in English textbooks and the relevancy of the English textbook to the criteria ofagood source for teaching and learning Biographical Recount text. This study used a descriptive-qualitative method utilising document analysis technique, especially using Transitivity analysis of SFL Framework. The primary data of this study were 4 Biographical Recount texs from Pathway to English for
General Program textbook for grade X textbook and Bahasa Inggris untuk Kelas X SMA, SMK-MA textbook implemented 2013 curriculum. The data was analysed following several
steps, including explaining the aspects of Biographical Recount texts, such as social purposes, schematic structure and linguistic features. The study reveals two findings. Firstly, almost all of Biographical Recount texts analysed are relevant to the criteria of their purposes; Secondly, the schematic structures of all Biographical Recount texts are consistent with the structures suggested by Knapp & Watkin, (2005), Nafisah & Kurniawan (2007), Hattingh (2011), Emilia & Christie(2013).In terms of linguistic features, the Transitivity analysis finds out that the texts possess the criteria of a good Biographical Recount seen from the frequent use of material processes, and adverbs or adverbial groups. Apart from the findings of schematic structures and linguistic features, there are also some limitations found in the texts e.g. no distinction among the stages, the use of simple present tense and the differences of orientation stage in second text. In spite of the limitations found, it can be derived from the findings that the Recount texts in both textbooks are suitable to be used as sources for learning and teaching English, but somehow it is also suggested to find other sources which provide more explanations, more examples, and more exercises.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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LIST OF TABLES
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents a brief introduction of the study, including reasons of
choosing the topic, research questions, aims of the study, significances of the
study, clarification of key terms and the organization of the paper.
1.1 Background of the Study
Textbooks are used as supporting media in the learning process and
accomplishing the goals of the syllabus (Hutchinson & Torres, 1994; Nunan,
2000; Celce-Muria, 2001; Lee, 2003; McGrath, 2006). The textbooks consist of
several texts and materials. Recount is one of the text found in the textbooks.
The Recount text, according to Derewianka (2004, p. 15; see also Emilia,
2011, p. 75; Sudarwati, 2013, p. 197) is divided into some particular types, such
as imaginative recount, procedural recount, factual recount (including historical
recount, biographical recount and autobiographical recount), and personal recount.
Among those kinds of the texts, one of the text which is considered difficult
is biographical recount, because the aspects, such as social purpose, schematic
structure and linguistic features, are similar to the aspects of narrative text
(Derewianka, 2004, p. 15; Coffin, 2005, p. 53; Emilia, 2011, p. 75).
In order to understand the aspects (including social purpose, schematic
structure and linguistic features) of the text, the English textbooks, particularly
used in Indonesia as sources for learning and teaching English, should provide a
good example of the text.
However, almost all Biographical Recount texts in textbooks for Indonesian
Senior High School students Grade X does not achieve the aspects (including
social purpose, schematic structure and linguistic features). Therefore, evaluation
of Recount texts in English textbooks for Indonesian Senior High School students
grade X, particularly in term of aspects, is demanded.
A way to assess aspects of Biographical Recount text is using the
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Tati, 2008).Transitivity analysis can identify the linguistic features of certain text
and how the linguistic features help the text achieve its purpose; and Transitivity
enables students to explore and build knowledge of the grammar patterns (Butt et
all, 2003, p. 80; Eggins, 2004, p. 211; Emilia, 2014, p.171).
There were some researchers conducting the study using the transitivity
system, such as Hattingh (2011) who examined how two narrators construe their
experiences of the same events differently through the linguistic choices that they
make, through a systemic functional analysis, as well as a genre analysis of two
testimonies, and Presnyakova (2013) who investigated the process types to reveal
the distribution of process types in the texts of elementary school textbooks.
Nevertheless, to the researcher`s knowledge, there were not so many researchers
who evaluated Biographical Recount text in English textbooks while it is seemed
important to be conducted. Moreover, the textbooks analysed in this study is for
Senior High School implementing 2013 curriculum.
Based on the phenomenon above, the researcher intends to ensure the
aspects of the Biographical Recount text in textbooks for Senior High School
using transitivity, and identify whether or not the prescribed textbooks in
Indonesia Senior High Schools are suitable to be used as the sources for teaching
and learning English.
1.2 Research Questions
This study aims to investigate recount texts in Senior High School English
textbooks in Indonesia. Therefore, the research questions for this study are:
1. To what extent do the Recount texts on the English textbooks Pathway to
English for Senior High School Grade X General Program and Bahasa
Inggris: Untuk SMA-MA/SMK Kelas X achieve the criteria of Recount text in
terms of its social purposes, schematic structures and linguistic features?
2. To what extent are prescribed textbooks in Indonesia Senior High Schools
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1.3 Aims of the Study
In accordance with the research questions, this study is aimed to :
1. Investigate the Biographical Recount texts on the English textbooks Pathway
to English for Senior High School Grade X General Program and Bahasa
Inggris: Untuk SMA-MA/SMK Kelas X in achieving the criteria of
Biographical Recount text in terms of its social purpose, schematic structure
and linguistic features.
2. Identify to what extent the prescribed textbooks in Indonesia Senior High
Schools are relevant to be used as sources for teaching and learning English.
1.4 Significance of the Study
The aim of the study is analyzing the Biographical Recount texts in two textbooks
for grade ten using Transitivity system analysis and investigating which textbook
is more relevant to be a source in teaching and learning Biographical Recount
texts. This study was expected to give importance in academic fields, such as
theory and practice.
In terms of theory, the study can enrich the reference of analysis on schematic
structure, purpose and linguistic features of Biographical Recount texts in English
texts using the Transitivity system.
In terms of practice, the subject field can aid teachers in selecting materials
for teaching and memorizing from texts and helping them take the most relevant
textbook for their learning source in the teaching Recount genre, particularly
biography types.
1.5 Clarification of terms
In order to avoid misperception about some main terms that will be used in the
study, the definition of the terms will be elaborated in this section.
1. Textbook is a material specifically designed for language teaching and
learning process to reach the objectives of learning (Cunningsworth, 1995, p.
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2. Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a theory in linguistics which sees
language as not only a set rules, but also serves as a resource for making
meaning system (Halliday, 1994, p. 15; Lock, 1996, p. 2; Emilia, 2005, p.87;
Eggins, 2004, p.2).
3. Transitivity system refers to overall grammatical resource for construing
goings on, which realized in participants, process types and circumstantial
(Martin, Mathiessen & Painter, 1997, p.100; Emilia, 2005, p.94; Eggins, 2004,
p. 249).
4. Recount text is a text retelling what is happening and involving writer`s
interpretation (Emilia, 2011, p. 75; Nafisah & Kurniawan, 2007, p. 65).
5. Biographical Recount is a factual recount retelling events or what happened in
the past which are arranged in a temporal sequence and specifically focuses on
somebody`s life (Macken-Horarik, 2002, p. 21; Emilia, 2011, p. 27)
1.6 Organization of the Paper
The paper of study is arranged into five chapters. Each section includes
subsections to give an insight to the topic under investigation. The first chapter is
an introduction, which provides a background of study, statements of problem,
purpose of study, clarification of key terms, and organization of the paper in order
to give an overview to the readers. The second chapter is literary review, which
explains the theories shaping the study. On that point are some theories that build
this study, which are curriculum, text and genre; Recount text; Biographical
Recount; Systemic Functional Linguistics and Its Metafunctions; Transitivity
system and previous research related to the field. The third chapter is research
methodology, which concentrates on the methodology used in taking the survey.
It covers research design, details of textbooks, data collection, and data analysis.
The fourth chapter is findings and discussion, which introduces the findings of the
data analysis. Those findings will be discussed and interpreted in this chapter. The
last chapter is conclusion, which shows the conclusion and some suggestions to
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1.7 Concluding Remark
This chapter has presented some aspects underlying the study, including
background of the study, statement of problems, aims of the study, the
significance of the study, clarification of key terms, and organization of the paper.
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CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGY
The previous chapter has elaborated theories relevant to the study. This chapter
focuses on an elaboration of methodology applied in this study. It covers
Research Design, Detail of Textbooks, Data Collection, and Data Analysis.
Firstly, research design discusses the method employed in this study. It includes the method’s principles and method’s characteristics. Secondly, details of textbooks elaborate the textbooks which were used in the research. Thirdly, data
Collection emphasizes on the technique used in collecting the data. Lastly, data
analysis explains the procedure of analyzing the data.
3.1 Research Design
The method employed in this study is the descriptive qualitative research, using
document analysis technique in particular. Descriptive qualitative research
method was used to collect, analyze, describe and categorize textual data using
interpretative analysis in order to recognize the aspects of Biographical Recount
texts in the English textbook for Indonesia Senior High School Grade X
interpretation from a researcher in giving an opinion around the topic (Alwasillah,
2003; Fraenkel, Wallen & Hyun, 2012, p. 426; Ary, Jacobs & Sorensen, 2010, p.
442).
Besides, this study also used the Transitivity system of Systemic Functional
Linguistics as a tool for analyzing the Recount texts, based on their schematic
structures, purposes and linguistic features (Emilia, 2005, p. 94; Eggins, 2004, p.
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3.2 Detail of Textbooks
Two textbooks were used as full point at analysis. Two texts were taken from
each book to be analyzed. Those textbooks titled are Pathway to English for
Senior High School Grade X General Program and Bahasa Inggris Untuk
SMA-MA/SMK Kelas X. The descriptions of those books have been presented in the
table 3.1. The texts taken were Biographical Recount texts and they are presented
in Appendix II.
The textbooks were selected because of their practicality and the purpose of
the study itself. In terms of practicality, the textbooks were selected because they
can be easily found in bookstores and they are used as sources in many schools. In
relation to the study, the two textbooks were selected in order to investigate to
what extent are textbooks relevant to be used in learning and teaching Recount
genre by comparing their Biographical Recount texts.
3.3 Data Collections
As stated before, this research used document analysis technique in collecting
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which are used in any communication, and provide valuable information in
helping the researchers understand central phenomena in qualitative studies
(Merriam, 1988), while collecting is defined as compiling or accumulating of
objects related to study topic (Yin, 2011).
Therefore, this study used to collect samples of Biographical Recount texts
in the textbooks. The samples of texts were selected using the purposive sample
method. Mc Millan (2001) stated that purposeful sampling is done to increase the
utility of information obtained from small samples.
In this case, there were four text samples taken from the textbook entitled
Bahasa Inggris untuk SMA-MA/SMK Kelas X, namely William Shakespeare and
W.S. Rendra (texts in page 129); and from the textbook entitled Pathway to
English for Senior High School Grade X General Program, namely Steve Jobs
(page 202) and Mohammad Hatta (page 199). Those texts were selected because
they were related to topic criteria of the texts that should be learnt by grade ten
students as proposed by the KI and KD, which was Teks Recount (KD 3.9, see
Appendix I).
To support the data from document analysis, this study also used interview
data. The interview is described as ‘the gold standard of qualitative research’
(Silverman, 2004, p. 51). As stated by Stake (2010, p. 95) the interview is used for
a number of purposes, particularly for a qualitative researcher, such as : Obtaining
unique information or interpretation held by the person interviewed; Collecting a
numerical aggregation of information from many persons; Finding out about “a thing” that the researchers were unable to observe themselves. In this study, the interview was also conducted in order to find out teachers` opinions toward the
Biographical Recount texts in the English textbooks, particularly on their
schematic structure, social purpose and linguistic features.
Two teachers who are teaching grade ten students in Senior High Schools
were involved in interview to validate the data. The teachers were interviewed
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social purpose and linguistic features. In order to get deeper information, the
interviews were conducted individually and using Bahasa Indonesia as mode of
communication (see Appendix for the interview questions).
3.4 Data Analysis
The data analysis in this study was divided into four steps, they are analysis of
schematic structure and social purpose of the texts, analysis of linguistic features
of Biographical Recount texts to do with experiential metafunction, and
comparison of the samples of Biographical Recount texts in two textbooks in
order to choose to what extent are textbooks relevant to be used as source for
learning English, particularly Recount genre. In order to emphasize opinion
toward the comparison of Biographical Recount texts in English textbooks, this
study also involved an interview with two English Teachers who teach English in
Senior High School Grade X. The details of analysis procedure is provided below
3.4.1 Analysis of schematic structure and social purpose
This section presents an analysis of schematic structure and social purposes, by
William Shakespeare, [ the greatest literary genius of english language ], was born in Stratford-Avon in 1564.
Record Of Events
Over the next two decade, he wrote a succession of widely acclaimed plays [ which may be categorized roughly into three groups : histories, comedies, and tragedies ].
His first attained success as a playwright after the production of Henry IV, Part 1, in 1599.
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Henry IV in 1599 were especially well received
and have continued to be produced even until the present day.
Of the comedies, a midsummer nights dream (1595), the merchant of venice (1595-1596), and much a do about nothing (1598), were and are enduring favorite with actors and audience alike.
Although Shakespeare is principally remembered today as the premier English dramatist,
he early attained widespread popularity in the 1590`s as a lyric and narrative poet with the publication of Venus and Adonis (1593) and the rape of lucrete (1594).
But undoubtedly,Shakespeares world wide reputation as a dramatist rests on the profound exploration of the human condition [ portrayed in his great tragedies, romeo and juliet (1594-1595), othelo (1602), king lear (1606), and anthony and cleopatra (1607).]
After having dominated the london theatrical scene for some twenty yearsm,Shakespeare retired to stratfor,
where he lived in relative ease
and comfort until his death in 1616.
3.4.2 Analysis of Linguistic Features
In this section, the linguistic features of texts were identified by utilizing
transitivity analysis. The analysis is used to investigate the interpretation of
meaning from texts` processes, participants and circumstances.
Orientation
Mohammad Hatta Is My hero Because he is an
important person
Career Attributive Attribute Cir : cause
Record of events
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Career Relational : Attributive Attribute
3.4.3 Analysis of Interview Data
This sections elaborates the analysis of interview data.The analysis includes
several steps such as transcribing the recorded interview into written form; and
after it was converted, the data was then categorized into several themes according
to the criteria of a good textbook posed in the interview question. After that, the
researchers interpreted the data, and draw a shared perspective related to the most
relevant textbook to be used in the teaching of English.
3.4.4 Comparison of Recount texts in textbooks
This section is the last step of data analysis, which is comparing the result of
Biographical Recount texts` analysis in terms of schematic structure, social
purpose and linguistic features. This analysis was used to reveal to what extent are
textbooks relevant to be used in teaching and learning Recount genre, particularly
Biography types.
3.5 Concluding Remark
This chapter has presented and discussed the methodology used in conducting the
study, including research design, detail of textbooks, data collection, and data
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The previous chapter has presented the analysis and the discussion towards the
finding related to social purposes, schematic structures and linguistic features of
Biographical Recount texts in two English textbooks and the comparison of both
textbooks. Then, this chapter provides the conclusion of the study and offers some
recommendation for further study, in which the brief description of some
underlying aspects—background, aims, main finding, and conclusion are
presented in the conclusion section, and the recommendation or some suggestions
for the further study of transitivity analysis of Biographical Recount texts are
presented in the recommendation section.
5.1 Conclusions
This study focuses on the investigation of Biographical Recount texts in two
English textbooks using transitivity analysis. It aims at investigating the
Biographical Recount texts on the English textbooks,Pathway to English for
Senior High School Grade X General Program and Bahasa Inggris: Untuk
SMA-MA/SMK Kelas X in achieving the criteria of a good Biographical Recount text in
terms of its schematic structure purpose and linguistic features. Moreover, it also
aims at identifying to what extent are the prescribed textbooks in Indonesia Senior
High Schools relevant to be used as sources for teaching and learning English.
The finding of this study shows that all of Biographical Recount text
samples in Pathway to English for Senior High School Grade X General Program
and Bahasa Inggris: Untuk SMA-MA/SMK Kelas X textbooks are suitable to be
used as sources for teaching and learning Biographical Recount. Those sample
texts were successfully achieving the purposes of Biographical Recount texts. In
addition, in terms of schematic structure, those sample texts completely achieved
the criteria of Biographical Recount texts, though there are some distinctions of
schematic structure in the texts from Pathway to English for Senior High School
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Moreover, in terms of linguistic features, all of Biographical Recount text
samples in both textbooks are also suited to the criteria of Biographical Recount
texts. Both textbooks use noun or noun groups to identify the specific participant
involved in the texts; material processes to refer to the events happening to the
specific participants; using adverbs and adverbial phrase, which are realized in the
circumstances, to add more detailed information about the specific participant;
and use the time connectives to sequence the events. There are some paragraphs in
some texts in both textbooks using simple present tense, but the whole paragraphs
are still using the simple past tense.
5.2 Recommendations
Relevant to the findings of the present study, the researcher intends to propose
some suggestions for others researchers to develop a somewhat similar study,
particularly in analyzing the texts found in students` textbooks. Some suggestions
presented are derived from the limitation of this study.
First, this study only focuses on analyzing four samples of the texts. Second,
this study also focuses on analyzing the aspects of the texts, this study does not
analyze the texts in terms of clause complex which contribute to the cohesion and
coherence of the texts. Therefore, for further researches, it is suggested to analyze
the clause complex of the texts and to analyze more sample of texts in some
textbooks.
In additions, based on result, teachers who are using the Bahasa Inggris:
Untuk SMA-MA/SMK Kelas X textbooks should be able to supplement the
learning materials using materials from other sources. Meanwhile, in order to gain
students’ understanding about the aspects of the texts, the teachers who are using
Pathway to English for Senior High School Grade X General Program should be
able to explain in more detail when they are teaching Recount texts, particularly in
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