because the purpose is merely needs to get an overall understanding of the text. And the most important thing is that when they are accustomed to
read, they will get easy to comprehend the next reading text. In other word, intensive reading is different from extensive reading.
Intensive reading needs times to comprehend because the reader has to know every single word and structure of sentence or paragraph to get
comprehension. But in extensive reading, the reader just needs to get the whole comprehension of the text without knowing its words one by one.
B. Narrative Text
1. The Understanding of Narrative Text
One of genres that Junior High School students learn is narrative text. Narrative text is a kind of text that describes a sequence of fictional or
nonfictional events. It consists of orientation, complication, and resolution. English text can be divided into two major text types; they are literary
text used to express human experiences in an imaginative way and factual text presents information, and ideas to inform, instruct, educate, or persuade
the reader
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. Reading text types that the second year students of Junior High School need to learn are: descriptive, narrative, and recount. Some writers say
that narrative text seems rather the same as recount text. But actually both of them are different. Narrative is one of literary text, the aim of narrative is to
tell a story or relate an event or anecdote. And recount is one of factual text, the aim of recount is to tell a story or relate an event or past experience.
Recount also has significant language features: use of past tense, temporal sequence of events, and individual participants. In this study, the writer
focuses the discussion on narrative text. Herewith the writer gives some understanding of narrative text from
some experts.
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Mark Anderson and Kathy Anderson, Text Types in English 1, South Yarra: Macmillan, 1997, p. 116
