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of daily live Basic Competence
12.1 Expressing the meaning in the form of simple short functional written text using accurate,
fluent, and acceptable written language to interact in the context of daily live.
12.2 Expressing the meaning and rhetorical steps in simple short essay using accurate, fluent,
and acceptable written language to interact in the context of daily live in the form of
narrative and report.
2.2 General Concept of Report
A report text is a piece of text that presents information about a subject. Report usually contains facts about a subject, a description and information on its
part, behaviour, and qualities. It can be said that report tells about persons, places or things in general based on people’s research.
According to Gerot and Wignell 1994: 196, the social function of report is to describe the way things are, with reference to a range of natural, man-made
and social phenomena in our environment. While, Hyland 2004: 29 says that social purpose of report is to present factual information, usually by classifying
things and then describing their characteristics. Based on the statements above, it
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can be concluded that the purpose of report is to classify, describe or to present information about a subject.
According to Gerot and Wignell 1994: 196 , generic structure of report includes:
a. General Classification: tells what the phenomenon under discussion is b.
Description: tells what the phenomenon under discussion is like in terms of -
parts and their function -
qualities -
habits or behaviours, if living; uses, if non-natural The lexicogrammatical features of report are:
a. Focus on Generic Participants
b. Use Relational Processes to state what is and that which it is
c. Use simple present tense
d. No temporal sequence
2.3 Teaching and Learning Media
Media, the plural form of medium is delivered from Latin word “medium” which means between Gerlach and Elly 1980: 24 stated that a medium is any
person, material, or event that establishes condition which enable the learners or students to acquire knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
Media is needed in teaching and learning process to help to establish the conditions for learners to identify or describe someone or something.
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Many kinds of media such as still pictures, tape recorder, overhead projector, radio, television, computer, etc are useful for teacher to achieve
instructional goals of the teaching learning process and they can also be easily found in our daily lives.
According to Gerlach and Elly 1980: 254, to select the media, the teacher must consider the characteristics of the student which directly relate to learning
process such as verbal abilities, visual and audio perception skills, experience, intelligence, motivation, personality, and social skills.
According to Brown et. al. 1983: 76-77, there are some criteria of media selection:
a. Content
b. Purposes
c. Appropriateness
d. Cost
e. Technical quality
f. Circumstance of use
g. Learner verification
h. Validation
2.4 Video Compact Disc VCD as a Media
