Jenis Teks (GENRE)

Berikut ini contoh-contoh jenis-jenis teks (genre) yang digunakan dalam kurikulum:
GENRE SOCIAL FUNCTION
A recount is a piece of text that retells past events, usually in the order in which they happened. Teks Recount adalah teks yang berisi tentang pengalaman pengalaman atau kejadian yang terjadi di masa lampau. Such as: Personal recounts, eg. Diary, personal letters, etc Factual retellings, eg. science experiment or news, police report, incidents reports. Imaginative recounts A report is used to present information about something. Reports generally describe an entire class of things, whether natural or made and also social phenomena in our environment. Teks Report adalah teks yang isinya mendeskripsikan sesuatu (binatang/barang/tempat umum,dll) secara umum. Such as: Brochures, government and business report. Newsworthy Event(s): recounts the event in summary form. Background Events: elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstances. Sources: comments by participants in, witnesses to and authorities expert on the event. Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline. Use of Material Processes to retell the event. Use of projecting Verbal Processes in Sources stage. Focus on Circumstances (e.g. mostly within Qualifiers). General classification: tells what the phenomenon under discussion is. Description tells what the phenomenon under discussion is like in terms of (1) parts, (2) qualities, (3) habits or behaviors, if living; uses, if non-natural.

GENERIC STRUCTURE
Orientation: provides the setting and introduces participants. Events: tell what happened, in what sequence. Re-orientation (A personal comment): optional-closure of events.

LANGUAGE FEATURES
Focus on specific participants. Use of material processes. Circumstance of time and place Use of past tense, i.e. simple past Focus on temporal sequence. Frequent use is made of words which link events in time, such as next, later, when, then, after, before, first, at the same time, etc.

RECOUNT

REPORT

Focus on generic participants. Use of Relational Processes to state what is and that which it is. Use of simple present tense (unless extinct) No temporal sequence

NEW ITEM

It is to inform the readers, listeners or viewers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.

To present (at least) two points of view about an issue. Teks Diskusi adalah teks yang menyajikan lebih dari satu point/ sudut pandang tentang suatu persoalan

Issue: Statement Preview Arguments for and against or Statement of differing points of view. Point Ellaboration

Such as: Pappers, essays and thesis.

Conclusion or Recommendation.

Focus on generic human and generic non-human Participants. Use of: Material Processes e.g. has produced, have developed, to feed. Relational Processes, e.g., is, could have, cause, are. -Mental Processes, e.g., feel. Use of Comparative: contrastive and Consequential conjunctions. Reasoning expressed as verbs and nouns (abstraction).

DISCUSSION

It is to share with others an account of an unusual or amusing incident.

Such as: Humour stories

Abstract: signals the retelling of an unusual incident. Orientation: sets the scene Crisis: provides details of the unusual incident. Reaction: reaction to crises Coda: optional reflection on or evaluation of the incident. Orientation: sets the scene and introduces the participants (who / what, where and when). Evaluation: a stepping back to evaluate the plight. Complication: a crisis arises. Resolution : the crisis is resolved, for better or for worse. Re-orientation: optional.

Use of exclamations, rhetorical questions and intensifiers (really, very, quite, etc.) to point up the significance of the events. Use of material processes to tell what happened. Use of temporal conjunctions.

ANECDOTE

Narrative is the telling of the story by using spoken or written language. It is usually not real, fiction. Teks Narratif adalah teks yang isinya tentang cerita (fiksi/non fiksi/dongeng/ cerita rakyat, dll) dan dalam alur plotnya selalu disertai dengan puncak masalah/ klimaks (complication) kemudian diikuti dengan penyelesaian masalah (Resolution).

Focus on specific and usually individualized Participants. Use of Material, Mental and Relational Processes. Use of past tense Use of temporal conjunctions and temporal circumstances

NARRATIVE

Eg fairytales, legends, plays, science fiction, myths, novel, cartoons, adventure/ short stories.

PROCEDURE

The social function of procedure text is to describe how something is accomplished through a sequence of actions or steps. Teks Prosedure adalah teks yang isinya mengenai langkah langkah /step bagaimana membuat / melakukan sesuatu. Eg. Recipes / cookbooks, craft instructions, game rules, science experiments/report. Descriptions focus our attention on the characteristic features of a particular thing. Teks Deskriptif adalah teks yang isinya mendeskripsikan tentang sesuatu hal (benda/orang/ tempat/binatang, dll) secara spesifik/detail. Explanations tell how and why things occur in scientific and technical fields or explain the processes involved in the formation or workings of natural or socio-cultural phenomena.

Goal or aim. Materials (not required for all procedural texts) Steps 1-n (i.e. Goal followed by a series of steps oriented to achieving the Goal)

Focus on generalized human agents. Use of simple present, often imperative. Use mainly of temporal conjunctions (or numbering to indicate sequence). Use mainly of Material Processes.

DESCRIPTION

Identification : Identifies phenomenon to be described. Descripton : Describes parts, qualities, characters.

Focus on specific participants Use of Attributive and Identifying Processes. Use of simple present tense. Frequent use of Ephitets and Classifiers in nominal groups. cause and events relationships Focus on generic, non-human Participants. Use mainly of Material and Relational Processes. Use mainly of temporal and causal Circumstances and Conjunctions. Some use of Passive voice to get Theme right. complex sentences technical language

A general statement to position the reader. A sequenced explanation of why or how something occurs.

EXPLANATION

Teks Eksplanation adalah teks yang menceritakan bagaimana dan mengapa hal itu terjadi di bidang teknik dan keilmuan (menerangkan suatu proses) Such as: News report, text book, Eg. explain how soil erosion occurs, explain why Australian fauna is unique.

EXPOSITION (ANALITYCAL)

It is to persuade the reader or listener that somethings the case. Teks Analytical Eksposisi adalah teks yang berisikan ajakan sesuatu kepada pembaca atau pendengar. Such as: Editorials, essays, commentaries

Thesis Position: Introduces topic and indicates writers position. Preview: Outlines the main arguments to be presented. Arguments Point: restates main arguments outlined in Preview. Elaboration: develops and supports each Point/argument. Reiteration: restates writers position. Thesis: announcement of issue concern. Arguments: reasons for concern, leading to recommendation. Recommendation: statement of what ought or ought not to happen.

Focus on generic human and non-human Participants. Use of simple present tense. Use of Relational Processes. Use of Internal conjunction to state argument. Reasoning through Causal Conjunction or nominalization

It is to persuade the reader or listener that something should or should not be the case.

Teks Hortatory Eksposisi adalah teks yang berisi ajakan kepada pembaca atau pendengar untuk melakukan sesuatu atau sesuatu itu jangan dilakukan. Such as: Editorials, essays, commentaries

Focus on generic human and non-human Participants, except for speaker or writer referring to self. Use of: - Mental Processes : to state what writer thinks or feels about issue, e.g. realize, feel, appreciate. - Material Processes : to state what happens, e.g., is polluting, drive, travel, spend, should be treated. - Relational Processes : to state what is or should be, e.g., doesn t seem to have been, is Use of simple present tense Focus on particular participants Direct expression of options through use of Attitudinal Ephitets in nominal gr oups ; qualitative Attributes and Affective Mental Processes. Use of elaborating and extending clause and group complexes to package the information. Use of metaphorical language (e.g.,The wit was there,dexterously ping ponged to and fro ).

EXPOSITION (HORTATORY)

It is to critique an art work, event for a public audience. Teks Review adalah teks yang digunakan untuk mengkritik sebuah karya seni, acara publik.

Such works of art include movies, TV shows, bocks, plays, operas, recordings, exhibitions, concerts and ballets.

Orientation: places the work in its general and particular context, often by comparing it with others of its kind or through analogue with a non-art object or event. Interpretive Recount: summaries the plot and/or provides an account of how the reviewed rendition of the work came into being;is optional, but if present, often recursive. Evaluative Summation: provides a kind of punchline which sums up the reviewers opinion of the art event as a whole; is optional.

REVIEW