1 The teacher asks the students some questions related to the Gallery Walk.
2 The teacher and the students discuss how to use the Gallery Walk in writing
activity. 3
The class is divided into five groups. 4
In class there will be five stations, each station will be provided with example of announcement and question.
5 Each group will rotate from station one to five to answer all questions based
on the example of announcement on the answer sheet in a given time. 6
After all groups have finished rotating and answering all questions, there will be class discussion.
7 Then, still in groups, students try to make an announcement.
8 After that, they stick their group works on the wall.
9 Nearly similar to the activity they have done before, each group visits the
ot her groups’ works. However, this time they don’t answer the questions but
they give feed back or comment to the other groups’ works. 10
Then they go back to their desks and do a class discussion. 11
Individually, students try to make their own announcement. Their individual assignment will be assigned as a post-test of Gallery Walk technique.
2.2.4 Short Functional Text
In 2006 curriculum, which is known as KTSP especially in standar isi, short functional text SFT is intended to be mastered by students of junior high school
and senior high school. In standar isi of the eighth grade of junior high school,
short functional text is included in all skills from listening, speaking, reading, until writing, so that the students are able to make and use it both writtenly and
orally. Then, what is short functional text? To know what short functional text is, it will be discussed in detail.
Firstly, it is about text . Halliday and Hasan 1985 mention that “text is a
communicated language”, while “functional means that language does a task in certain context or takes a role in certain context.” A daily language that takes
certain roles in situational context can be also called as text. It can be spoken or written, or such media we use to convey what we think or everything inside our
mind. Basically, a text is a unit of meaning. Meanwhile, based on the Oxford dictionary “functional is designed to be practical and useful, having or providing
little or no decoration.” Functional text in standar isi means that the text is useful in interaction with our surroundings.
From the explanation above, it can be concluded that short functional text is a short type of text consisting of a word or a clause functioning to achieve
certain purposes and is useful in interaction with our surrounding. The content of short functional text can be information, command, guidelines, notice or
prohibition. There are many examples of short functional texts which can be used for our daily communication such as memorandum, advertisement,
announcement, shopping list, and many others. The kind of short functional text that will be discussed in this research is announcement. The further explanation
about announcement is in the following point.
2.2.5 Announcement
