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The teacher provides an explanation to reinforce the functions and forms of language structures they had worked before.
c The teacher gives some examples of sentences as the model.
d The teacher repeats the pronunciation of sentences correctly.
e The teacher asks the students to work in pairs.
4 Application
The last section of this technique is Application. It is the learning stage when students are given opportunities to use or apply the structure items that they
have learned to communicate, either receptively or productively. Kenneth 1976 states that the objective of the application is to determine whether the students know
how to apply grammatical forms that have previously been presented p. 83. The activities that can be done are:
a The students are instructed to work individually.
b The teacher gives the students the task cards pictures that contain the Situation
Case. c
The students are required to make their own writing based on the situationscases provided.
d The teacher gives the students homework to discuss in the future learning.
4. Genre - Based Approach
According to Lin 2006, teaching and learning in genre-based approach focus on the understanding and production of selected genres of texts. This
approach may help students get closer to the topic of the teaching and learning activities. The students learn in a simpler way to identify kinds of texts and the
17 structure of the texts. Besides, they learn to retell the texts using their own words in
the simple form. This approach is used since the researcher uses some genres of texts to
design the materials which are suitable with the syllabus of the school. Based on the syllabus that is used by the teachers, there are three kinds of texts that are taught
to the eighth grade of Junior High School. They are recount text, narrative text, and descriptive text.
a. Kinds of Genre Texts Used for the Eighth Grade of Junior High School
1 Recount Text
Recount is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. The purpose is to inform and entertain the audience. The generic structures of the text are
orientation, series of event, and reorientation. The characteristics of recount text are using simple past tense, chronological connection, and linking verbs. Here is the
example of recount text:
Orientation
Event 1
Event 2 Reorientation
Figure 2.2. An Example of A Recount Text
Yesterday, at my school, we had an International Day. We had performances, food stalls, displays, raffle ticket draw, and some of us
were dressed in costumes. We started our day off with performances but the one I liked best was
the one from fourth grade. We played games. The performance I was in was Labamba.
After our performances we had our lunch. There were food stalls. They came from Australia, Asia, Arab, and Greece.
There were also a Trash and Treasure stall where they sold toys. The school got these things by asking the children to bring them in.
Although I didn’t win anything, International Day was still fun.
