GAPS BETWEEN MODEL AND STUDENT’S DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS BASED ON GENRE LEVEL AND TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS

Nadia Hulwa, Wawan Gunawan

Abstract


Indonesian students’ writing ability is one of the concerns that the government focuses on currently. However, students still find it hard to express their ideas in writing. Therefore, there is a strong nessecity to analyze the way students write texts and to provide pedagogical implication that is hopefully assist teachers and students in developing their writings skill. This research adopts qualitative design, particularly the textual analysis in order to find the gaps between a model descriptive text and a student-written descriptive text based on their genre level and transitivity analysis. The data of this research were gained from a descriptive text written by a seventh-grade junior high school student from a junior high school in West Java, Indonesia and a model text taken from an English textbook. The results of this research indicate that the student still needs improvements in order to write a good descriptive text. The findings show that at genre level, the students have fulfilled the schematic structure of descriptive text, However, the text needs improvement in cohession. The gaps were stressed in the analysis of transitivity where both texts are dominated with relational process type and this has fulfilled the language feature of descriptive text. However, the relational process types in student’s writing are not as rich as those found in the model text. Therefore, it is necessary to improve certain pedagogical implications, such as the application of genre-based pedagogy in the classroom in order to improve students’ writing.

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