Analyzing transitivity in eleventh-grade students’ hortatory exposition texts written

Abstract

Writing is a fundamental English language skill in Indonesian education since it has become an academic requirement. However, students’ interest in writing to fulfill the academic requirements is still low, especially in writing hortatory exposition text. To contribute to overcoming this problem, this research aims to find the process employed in hortatory exposition text and the dominant processes in students’ hortatory exposition text to discover the students’ ability to write hortatory exposition text from the perspective of systemic functional linguistic (SFL), specifically in transitivity and to find out the pedagogical implication to deal with those problems. This research belongs to qualitative descriptive research, in which document analysis is used to obtain the data. The finding showed that the material process is the first dominant transitivity process in students’ writing hortatory text. Of all 39 clauses, the material process occurs 20 times (51.2%), followed by the relational process 13 times (33.3%), the mental process 4 times (10.2%), and the existential process only 2 times (5.12%), and verbal and behavioral processes were not found in the students’ texts.