c reorientation, it consists of a type of conclusion with a comment or a summary and evaluation about the topic of the story.
Beside the generic structure or rhetorical features of a recount text, as Anderson Anderson 2003 statedthere are also the language features
which are usually found in a recount text, they are: a proper nouns to identify those involved in the text; b descriptive words to give details about who,
what, when, where, and how; c the use of the past tense to retell the events, and 4 words that show the order of events or connectors for example, first,
next, then, etc.
Here is the example of recount text for second grade of SMP.
My Holiday in Bali
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After that, we went to Sukowati market for shopping. That was my lovely time. I bought some Bali
T-Shirt and souvenirs. When I was second grade of senior high school,
my friends and I went to Bali. We were there for three days. I had many impressive experiences during the
vacation.
First day, we visited Sanur Beach in the morning. We saw the beautiful sunrise together. It was
a great scenery. Then, we checked in to the hotel. After prepared our selves, we went to Tanah Lot. We met so
many other tourists there. They were not only domestic but also foreign tourists.
Second day, we enjoyed the day on TanjungBenoa beach. We played so many water sports
such as banana boat, jetsky, speedboat etc. We also went to Penyuisland to see many unique animals. They
were turtles, snakes, and sea birds. We were very happy. In the afternoon, we went to Kuta Beach to see
the amazing sunset and enjoyed the beautiful wave. The last day, we spent our time in Sangeh. We could
enjoy the green and shady forest. There were so many monkies. They were so tame but sometimes they could
be naughty. We could make a close interaction with them.
Orientation
Listseries of events
Re-orientation
2.2.5. Get the Gist Strategy
Get the Gist Strategy isone of reading strategies in which the students summarize the text become one sentence that is 20 words or less. It was
important because using Get the Gist Strategy helped the students to find out the main idea in each paragraph of the text. Finding main idea in a text was
one of the important aspects because when the readers read and found main idea or key concept of a text, automatically they would be easier to know
about the content of the passage. They could identify key concept or main idea in a text and summarize it in a sentence. Cunningham 1982 Cecil and
Gipe, 2003 proposed one of the strategy that is considered useful to improve students’ reading comperehension and involves students’ prior knowledge,
synthesizing, and generalizing operation is Generating Interaction Between Schemata and Text GIST strategy. This strategy is said useful to identify or
generate main ideas, eliminate redundant and unnecessary information, help students remember what they read, and record a summary of material they
just read. Cunningham 1982: 42-47stated that a summary is a synthesis of important
ideas on a text. Summarizing requires determining what is important in what they are reading, to condense this information, and to put it into their own
words. The summary is usually limited to no more than fifteen or twenty words. Therefore, the students need to delete non-essential information and
use their own words to summarize the main idea or „the gist’ of the selection.
Wright 2011:1 noticed that the word gist is defined as the main oressential part of a matter, according toWebsters Dictionary.This activity
forces students to squeezemeaning into a tight, precise summary. She said that the goal of GIST is to have students conveythe gist of what they have
read bysummarizing the text in 20 words. Extraneous details must be discarded as aclearly defined focus is found. It is best torequire a sentence
format. Gist was used in teaching reading because Gist was a good strategy for any level reader and the students develop skills in identifying mainideas
and key concepts in the text. Get the Gist Strategy was a teaching reading technique in which the teacher
made their students to summarize the content of the text based on the finding out main idea in the text. He encouraged his students to take delight in
reading the written texts through applying the Get the Gist Strategy in the teaching reading activity in the class. By applying this teaching reading
strategy in the class, the teacher could stimulate the students who were lazy to read to be students who were contented to read. As Siddiqui 2007:119 in
cited Zainotalia 2012 argued that Get the Gist Strategy that is can improve students’ understanding and memory of what they have learned so they could
get the most important point or the main idea of the passage. Get the Gist Strategy is an activity which helps the students and the teachers
to identify key concept. It means that after identifying key concept and then finding main idea, automatically the students understand and comprehend the
meaning of the content of the text. It relates to Klinger 2012: 33 which said that the purpose of the Get the Gist Strategy is to determine the most
