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1.4.2 What text structures are displayed in short functional texts and essays in year X English text book?
1.4.3 What linguistic features characterize the short functional texts and essays in year X English text book ?
1.4.4 To what extend compatability the short functional texts and essays in year X English text book with standar isi ?
1.5 Objectives of Study
Based on the purpose of the study above the objectives of the study are : 1. To describe the communicative purpose of short functional texts and
essays in year X English Text Book.. 2. To describe text structures of short functional texts and essays in year X
English text books. 3. To describe and analyze linguistic features characterizing the short
functional texts and essays in year X English text books. 4.
To know compatability the short functional texts and essays in year X English textbook with standar isi.
1.6 Significances of the Study
It is hoped that the results of the study will be useful to help the English teacher to enrich their knowledge about short functional text features so they
have the ability in selecting short functional text or create one and to enrich materials to improve mastery in producing English short functional texts
matched to the context although they have limited sources or facilities. Besides this, it is my sincere hope that this study would help book writers in
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writing text books and improving the quality of English text books by using the findings as examples. Furthermore, this study could inform to public
whether the text books match the ”Standar Isi” or not.
1.7 Definition of Key Terms
This study contains some terms that may cause misunderstanding for those who read it. I will try to avoid the misunderstanding by giving
explanations. By short functional texts is meant the short text written in certain books
that are connected stretch of language that is doing a job within a social context. The ‘texts’ are used to refer to any written record of a communicative
event. The event may involve oral language for example a sermon, a casual conversation, a shopping transaction or written language for example, a
poem, a newspaper advertisement, a wall poster, a shopping list, a novel . Nunan, 1993.
Based on the size, there are two kinds of texts, short and long texts . I will use only the short ones. It is because I refer to standard competences in
Standar Isi, one of which mentioned that in writing skill, students should be able to express meaning of short functional text in the genre of spoof, recount,
and news item. Functional means functions. I see a functional approach to language.
As mentioned by Derewianka 1995 : 3, a functional approach looks at how language enables us to do things – to share information, to enquire, to express
attitudes, to entertain, to argue, to get our needs met, to reflect, to construct
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ideas, to order our experience and make sense of the world. So, Functional text, here, means a text that has language function in life need, especially for
senior high school students. What kind of short texts do they need in real life for communication. They will use the text to make their life easier to access
information. Also, students can make similar text to cope with their need in life for communication. Texts may be as short one word, e.g. STOP. Usually
the texts are found in the form of a banner, a poster, an announcement, an
invitation, an advertisement, etc.. So, short functional texts mean english
texts in the form of : banner, poster, announcement, advertisement, short letter, short e-mail, short massage, campaign flayer, etc.
Essays, in this study, mean English functional texts in the form of essay. They are more than short functional texts. They rflect people expression of
written text, such as people experience in past recount , newsworthy of things, describing of things , telling how to operate something that happened
in daily life. Those short functional texts and essays are written texts that are found
in year X English text books. Year X English textbooks means English text books that are used in Senior High Schools Grade 1 or similar to first grade
of SMAMA.
1.8 Limitation of the Study
