APPLYING CORRECTION GAME IN TEACHING NOMINALIZATION TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING OF DISCUSSION TEXT

Related to curriculum 2013 which is currently applied in Indonesia, students are required to learn genres and later write the text independently. One of the genre types learned at higher level of students, grade XII is argumentative discussion. However, they often face difficulties in delivering and elaborating their opinions and reasons in writing discussion text since they do not know exactly how to do so. Using qualitative design and Systemic Functional Linguistics analysis, this study attempts to find out the analysis result of the discussion text written by expert in which becomes the basic reference to identify the main problem found in the students’ texts which later help to discover pedagogical implication to improve their writings. The results show that the expert’s text is considered as an ideal model of discussion text. Besides, there are two problems appeared in the students’ texts in term of the situational contexts such as lack of nominalization and the absence of passive sentence. The former becomes the major problem since it is assumed to affect the appearance of the latter. The implementation of Correction Game which is integrated in the genre based approach teaching reveals as pedagogical implication.

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THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERNS OF SHORT STORY THE BLACK CAT

LANGUAGE LITERACY Journal of Linguistics Literature and Language Teaching ◽

10.30743/ll.v3i1.1082 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 64-73

Author(s):

Dewi Fatmawati ◽

Tengku Silvana Sinar ◽

Rohani Ganie ◽

Muhammad Yusuf

Keyword(s):

Short Story ◽

Edgar Allan Poe ◽

Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽

Qualitative Design ◽

Functional Linguistics ◽

Thematic Progression ◽

Dominant Pattern ◽

Progression Patterns ◽

Descriptive Qualitative

This study attempts to investigate thematic progression deployed in The Black Cat short story. The objectives of study are 1) To indicate the types of Thematic Progression in “The Black Cat” short story and 2) to describe the realization of Thematic Progression in “The Black Cat” short story. This study was conducted in descriptive qualitative design. The data were taken from the text of “The Black Cat” short story. The source of the data in this study was The Black Cat and Other Stories book written by Edgar Allan Poe. Systemic Functional Linguistics theory proposed by Halliday (1994) was used to analyzed thematic progression in “The Black Cat” short story regarded with Textual Function. In analyzing the thematic progression, there are three kinds of thematic progression: theme reiteration, the zig-zag pattern and the multiple- rheme pattern. The findings showed that the multiple- rheme pattern is the most dominant realized in 32 times (74%), theme reiteration is the second realized in 7 times (16,3%), and the zig-zag pattern is realized in 4 times (9,3%) and the least dominant pattern in “The Black Cat” short story.

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PROCESSES IN REPORT TEXT: AN ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC ON TRANSITIVITY

Widya Accarya ◽

10.46650/wa.11.1.863.10-16 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 10-16

Author(s):

Gede Sutrisna

Keyword(s):

Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽

Qualitative Design ◽

Functional Linguistics ◽

Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽

Report Text ◽

Clear Information ◽

Descriptive Qualitative

Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui proses transitivitas yang paling dominan digunakan dalam teks report dan kaitannya dengan prinsip dasar teks report. Desain yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan penerapan teori Linguistik Sistemik Fungsional pada transitivitas. Data dalam penelitian ini merupakan 29 klausa yang diperoleh dari teks report yang digunakan dalam Ujian Nasional kelas sembilan SMP. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa keenam jenis proses transitivitas digunakan dalam teks report. Namun, proses yang paling banyak digunakan adalah material (44%) dan relasional (31%). Hal ini menandakan kedua proses tersebut berperan penting dalam memberikan informasi dan gambaran yang jelas sehingga para pembaca mampu memahami obyek yang dijelaskan dalam teks report. Kata Kunci: teks report, transitivitas, linguistik sistemik fungsional Abstract This research aimed at investigating the most dominant of transitivity process used in report text and how it relates with the nature of report text. It employed descriptive qualitative design and applied Systemic Functional Linguistics on Transitivity. The data were 29 clauses taken from report texts used in ninth grade’s National Exam. The result of this research revealed that six types of transitivity processes found in the report texts. Yet, material (44%) and relational (31%) were found to dominate the rest of the processes. This implied that those two processes serve important roles in providing clear information and description for the readers to understand the object being described in report text. Keywords: report text, transitivity, systemic functional linguistics

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THE REALIZATION OF SPEECH FUNCTION IN ENGLISH CLASSROOM INTERACTION BASED ON SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS THEORY

10.24114/reg.v7i1.9180 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Arini Supika And Fahri Haswani

Keyword(s):

Reading Comprehension ◽

Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽

Classroom Interaction ◽

Thought Processes ◽

Teaching Process ◽

Dominant Type ◽

Qualitative Design ◽

Functional Linguistics ◽

Tenth Grade ◽

English Classroom

This study deals with speech functions used by teacher and students during reading comprehension session in English vocational classroom interaction. The objectives of this study were to find out the types of speech function which were dominantly used by teacher and students and the reasons for the existences of that dominant one. A descriptive qualitative design was used in this study. The data were collected by observing, recording the utterances of teacher and the tenth grade students at SMK Jambi Medan, and by interviewing the subjects. The data were analyzed based on Systemic Functional Linguistics theory. There were 552 clauses produced as the total number where teacher produced 411 clauses and students produced 141 clauses. The results showed that question was the dominant type of speech function used by teacher followed by statement, acknowledgement, command, contradiction and offer. Meanwhile, the dominant type of speech function used by students was answer, followed by compliance, statement, acknowledgement, and disclaimer. The existences of initiating question on the teacher’s performance were affected by the presage category (teacher’s belief) and context category (the class in which the teaching process takes place), while, the existences of answer on the students’ performance were affected by the students’ thought processes category (students’ perception and understanding) and the context category. In conclusion, the teacher used the speech function which focused on using initiation of question, while students dominantly used answer speech function in English classroom interaction.

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Sunken ships and screaming banshees: metaphor and evaluation in film reviews

English Language and Linguistics ◽

10.1017/s1360674321000046 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-29

Author(s):

MATTEO FUOLI ◽

JEANNETTE LITTLEMORE ◽

SARAH TURNER

Keyword(s):

Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Theoretical Perspective ◽

The Internet ◽

Functional Linguistics ◽

Film Reviews ◽

Different Levels ◽

Made In ◽

Do So

It has been suggested that metaphor often performs some sort of evaluative function. However, there have been few empirical studies addressing this issue. Moreover, little is known about the extent to which a metaphor needs to be creative in order to perform an evaluative function, or whether there are differences according to the type of evaluation, such as its degree of explicitness and its polarity. In order to investigate these questions, 94 film reviews from the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) were annotated for creative and conventional metaphor, and for positive and negative, inscribed and invoked evaluation. Approximately half of the metaphors in our corpus were found to perform an evaluative function. Creative metaphors were significantly more likely to perform an evaluative function than conventional metaphors. Metaphorical evaluation was found to be significantly more negative than non-metaphorical evaluation. Both creative and conventional metaphors were used more frequently to perform inscribed evaluation than invoked evaluation. However, the tendency towards inscribed evaluation was stronger for conventional metaphors than for creative metaphors. From a theoretical perspective, these findings call into question fundamental assumptions about the role of metaphor in performing evaluation, such as the claim, made in the Systemic Functional Linguistics literature, that metaphor invariably ‘provokes’ attitudinal meanings. We have shown that it can do so, but that it does not always do so. The study also offers methodological contributions, by introducing a new protocol for the annotation of creative metaphors as well as detailed guidelines for coding evaluation at different levels of explicitness.

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Functional Analysis of Narrative Texts in Elementary School Textbook “Fly with English”

Elementary Education Journal ◽

10.53088/eej.v1i1.149 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 19-28

Author(s):

Ambar Jati ◽

Manu Somphithak

Keyword(s):

Elementary School ◽

Learning Process ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽

Narrative Text ◽

Narrative Texts ◽

Functional Linguistics ◽

School Textbook ◽

Pedagogical Implication ◽

Material Process

Background: This study is an analysis of narrative texts in Elementary School textbook “Fly with English” based on lexico-grammar and context in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). This study is also expected to give the pedagogical implication based on the context of teaching and learning process Method: This research uses descriptive qualitative type of study in investigating the problem. In the technique of collecting data, the writer uses observation and documentation. The writer finds 95 clauses in narrative text. In analyzing the data, the writer uses lexico-grammar of SFL framework to answer the first problem. Moreover, the writer refers to context of SFL framework to answer the second problem, and the writer also uses context of teaching and learning to answer the third problem. Result: Based on the result, there are six types of processes in the narrative text, those are: (1) material process (40%), (2) mental process (23,1%), (3) relational process (20%), (4) verbal and behavioral process (7,4%), and (5) existential process (2,1%). The writer also finds fifteen types of the participants, namely actor, goal, senser, phenomenon, sayer, verbiage, carrier, attribute, token, value, receiver, client, recipient, behaver, and existent. Moreover, the writer finds six types of circumstances, that are, location, matter, manner, accompaniment, cause, and extent. Implication: The pedagogical implication of studying Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) in narrative text is to give the insight of the teacher about SFL genre pedagogy in teaching and learning process. In functional grammar, teacher can teach the language features in different ways, such as by introducing the terms of processes, participants, and circumstances that contain in the narrative text clauses.

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External and Internal Conjunctions in the News Story Text of the Jakarta Post

LINGUISTIK TERAPAN ◽

10.24114/lt.v17i1.19761 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 17

Author(s):

Novita Sari ◽

Amrin Saragih ◽

Anni Holila Pulungan

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽

News Story ◽

Qualitative Design ◽

Interactive Model ◽

Functional Linguistics ◽

Model Technique ◽

Clause Complex ◽

Dependent Clause

This study was investigated external and internal conjunctions in the news story text of the Jakarta Post based on Systemic Functional Linguistics Approach. The objective of this study was to describe the realization of external and internal conjunctions. The research was conducted by using qualitative design. The data of this research were clause complex of external and internal conjunctions in the news text the Jakarta Post. The data were taken from website official Jakarta Post https://www.thejakartapost.com/. The data were collected by documentary technique. The technique of data analysis applied interactive model technique by Miles, Huberman and Saldana (2014). The findings showed external and internal conjunctions describes in clause complex news text used to clause complex have several clauses consist of independent clause is an equal (paratactic) and clause complex have several clauses consist of independent clause relate with dependent clause is an unequal (hypotactic). Keywords: External Conjunction, Internal Conjunctions, News Text

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