c. The Language Features of Recount Text
The language features of recount text are divided into several, they are: 1 Written in the past tense, e.g. I went 2 in chronological order, using
connectives that signal time, for example, then, next, after, meanwhile. 3 focused on individual or group participants, for example, in first person: I,
we, or third person: he, she, they, etc.
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In other words, those language features above help to write the recount text. The first is proper nouns to identify those involves in the text. It is useful
to show who, where and when the story took place, for example; Rina, at home, South Africa, etc. The second is descriptive words. It is used to give
details about who, what, when, where, and how the events happen. The next is the use of the past tense. Because recount is retelling a story that happens in
the past time, so the use of the past tense is needed to make sure the readers that the events happened in the past time. The last is words that show the
order of events, for example, first, next, then, etc.
d. The Types of Recount Text
Commonly, there are many types of recount text, they are: 1 eyewitness accounts, 2 letters, 3 conversations, 4 newspaper reports, 5 television,
6 interviews, and 7 speech. Firstly is the eyewitness account. The purpose of the eyewitness accounts
is to provide details about the past event chronologically, such as the accidents, the explosion a flight, etc. the audience can be a reader of
newspaper or can be a police officer. Secondly, it is letters. Letters is written for some reasons, one of them is to tell the events that have happened in the
past, for example writing about the activities in last holiday to a friend. Thirdly, it is conversations. The conversation is spoken by two or more
people to tell the listener about something. In this case, the conversation tells about past event, for example, telling about what happened this morning or
last night. The next type is newspaper reports. In newspaper, the reader can read about some events that have happened in the order in which they occur,
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for example how robber stole some money in the bank last night, etc. the next type is television interview. In television interview, there are reporter who
asking the questions and interviewee person who is interviewed. The reporter asks to recount part of the interviewee life. The last type is speech.
“Speech is a spoken text that can have a variety of purposes. A recount speech would be one where the speakers tells the audience about past
happening. The speaker would recount the events in the order in which they took pla
ce.”On the other hand, a speech has many purposes, but in recount speech, the speaker in speech is someone who tells to the audience about a
past event.
1. Scanning Technique
a. Conception of Reading Comprehension
The word reading , based on Cambridge Advance Learner’s Dictionary can
be defined as “as a noun of written text, the skill or activity of getting information from books, while as a noun of understanding, the way in which
you understand something ”.
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The definition above is similar to definition reading in English Learning. Reading aims to get information and to
understand what the writers mean in the texts. Reading is an activity of process of transferring or decoding from the
written to oral form. Therefore, reading involves obtaining meaning from printed or written symbol or understanding the meaning it carries.
Dallmanargue that reading involves more than recognition;
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that comprehension is an essential of reading; that without comprehension no
reading takes place; that in reading the readers reacts to what is recorded in writing; that his reaction is determined to a considerable extent by his past
experience, both first hand and vicarious; that what the reader brings to the page is at times as significant to reading as what is actually written on it; that
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Cambridge, Cambridge Advance Learner’s Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2008, p. 1502
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J. Dallman, The Teaching of Reading, New York: Halt Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1992, p. 24
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