concerning learning successes and failures. It is used for example at the end of a unit in the course book or after lesson designed to teach one particular point. The
result of this test will provide to students information about how well they have learnt a particular material and will give the students immediate feedback. If their
learning has been successful, which is indicated by good mark from a result of test, they are likely to take the next learning task with fresh and great enthusiasm.
The evaluation which is done by teacher in teaching – learning is aimed for three aspects, such as a students, b teacher and c headmaster. a for the
students, these evaluations as a final result of their studying in order to know about their skills in understanding the materials, b for the teachers, it as a
consideration of the students’ development in their learning process to increase students’ learning improvement processes, and the last is c for the headmaster,
the result of these evaluations as a consideration for him in order to know whether he has to increase the school qualities and the students’ skill qualities or not.
G. Functional Expression
English subject is aimed to develop those skills in order students to able to communicate in positive literacy covering performative, functional, informational,
and epistemic.
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As stated in latest syllabus KTSP that there is a material which is used in the daily activities, it is functional or called functional expression in
other hand named language gambit. According to Longman Dictionary, functional expression is something that
you do or say which is intended to give you an advantage in an argument; a clever debating gambit. These questions are often on opening gambit, the thing you say
first for negotiation.
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In functional, a person able to use the language to fulfill their life needs, such as reading newspapers, etc.
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman: Pearson Education Limited, 2002, p.662.
Functional expression is taught to the students in order they can interact and communicate in the daily life activities which covering giving and accepting
information, saying thank you or saying greetings and saying something politeness. Functional expressions have a wide range of pragmatic functions: they
may be used to initiate discourse “say”, change direction of discourse “on the other hand…”
, interrupt “wait a minute”, hesitate “well… and so on.
Although they vary in function, they are defined and characterized by their stereotyped formulation and their predictable use to accomplish a particular
speech act. Sometimes there is nothing grammatically wrong with the utterances of functional expression; it does not belong to the restricted group of expression
one may use to interrupt.
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There were some functional expressions taught in the seventh grade of junior high school, they are:
Table 2.2.: Functional Expression and Its utterances
Functional Expression Utterances
Response the meaning of simple transactional to get things done and
interpersonal conversation accurately, fluently, and effectively in term of :
asking n giving help A: “can you help me?”
B: “sure, I m ready”
Response the meaning of simple transactional to get things done and
interpersonal conversation accurately, fluently, and effectively in term of :
asking n giving thing A: “May I borrow your pen?”
B: “sure, here you are”
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Foreign Language Annals, October 1987volume 20, p. 393 – 394.
Response the meaning of simple transactional to get things done and
interpersonal conversation accurately, fluently, and effectively in term of :
asking n giving fact A: “where is it?
B: it’s there..
A: Did you come here yesterday?
B: I came here yesterday Response the meaning of simple
transactional to get things done and interpersonal conversation accurately,
fluently, and effectively in term of : asking n giving opinión
A: what do you think of this? B: Not bad
Response the meaning of simple transactional to get things done and
interpersonal conversation accurately, fluently, and effectively in term of : like
n dislike A: Do you like beef?
B: yes, I like A: Do you like red shirt?
B: no, I dislike
Response the meaning of simple transactional to get things done and
interpersonal conversation accurately, fluently, and effectively in term of :
asking clarification A: Are You sure?
B: Well, It’s like this…
Response the meaning of simple transactional to get things done and
interpersonal conversation accurately, fluently, and effectively in term of :
interpersonal A: I met her
B: I Did you? C: It’s huge, you know
D: Is it? E: You are new, aren’t you?
F: I am
Adapted from
SMPMTs English Syllabus 2006.
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From the table 2.2 previously about the functional expression and its utterances showed that the functional expressions mentioned previously must be
taught in physical classroom atmosphere.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents and discusses about place and time of the study, research design, subject of the study, research instrument, data and source data,
techniques of collecting data, and techniques of data analysis.
A. Place and Time of the Study
The writer did this research at MTs Pembangunan UIN Jakarta. She conducted this research at the school about three months; they are from
December, 17
th
2008 up to February, 13
th
2009.
B. Research Design
The design of this study is descriptive evaluative about teaching functional expression for the first grade students of MTs Pembangunan UIN Syarif
Hidayatullah Jakarta based on KTSP syllabus. This study is aimed at describing and evaluating about the using and understanding of functional expression in daily
life activities.
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