2.2 Narrative text
In this research, narrative text is chosen based on some reasons. First, narrative is taught in the eight year of Junior High School level, especially in the
second semester. Second, the English teacher said that the students of SMP Muhammadiyah 6 Wuluhan are difficult in generating their ideas in sentences and
then combining them into a good narrative text. Third, they get some difficulties in mastering the aspects of writing. They could not write all sentences with correct
grammar. They lacked knowledge about tenses. They also did not have enough words and were not able to use them in a proper place. These problems are found in the
students’ writing. According to Polkinghorne 1998 in Richardson 1990:21, narrative is the
primary way through which humans organize their experiences into temporally meaningful episodes. We can find narrative in everywhere, present in myth, fable,
short story, history, tragedy, comedy, fairy tales, and novels. The basic purpose is to entertain, to gain, and to hold a readers’ interest english online.com:2006.
For Junior High School students, narrative text appears in the following guideline:
Table 2.1. Narrative Text GENRE
SOCIAL FUNCTION
GENERIC STRUCTURE
SIGNIFICANT LEXICOGRAMMATICAL
FEATURES
Narrative To amuse, to
entertain, and to deal with actual or
various experience in different ways;
narratives deal with problematic
events which lead to a crisis or
turning point of some kind, which
in turn finds a resolution.
• Orientation: sets the scene
and introduces the
participants. • Complication:
a crisis arises • Resolution: the
crisis is
resolved, for
better or for worse.
• Re-orientation: optional
Focus on specific and usually individualized Participants
Used of Material Processes and in this text, Behavioral
and Verbal Processes Use of Relational Processes
and Mental Processes Use of temporal conjunctions
and temporal Circumstances Use of past tense
Depdiknas, 2004: 50-51
2.3 The Teaching of Writing at SMP Muhammadiyah 6 Wuluhan
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