understand about four competencies and produce various short functional texts. The student must pay attention all about linguistic competence grammar, lexical
items, punctuation appropriately, socio-cultural competence appropriate expression in various context of situation, strategic competence communication
doesn’t stop before overcoming problems, and actional competence, when we will communicate to other people we must understand what we will show to our
interlocutors by performing, interpreting and speech act sets. Three elements above can support the learning activities of students in
learning the English language and it can support the students in their competencies.
B. Recount Text
1. Definition of Recount text
Often we will want to tell other people about something that has happened in our life. We might want to tell about what we did at the weekend. It might be
about exciting things that happened when we were on holidays last year. According to Anderson 1997: 48 a recount is a piece of text that retells
past events, usually in the order they occurred. Its purpose is to provide the audience with a descriptive occurred and when it’s occurred
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. Recount text means the form of the text telling about someone experience in the past used in
curriculum 2004, it usually tells about the experience of the readers themselves, such as their adventure and their last day’s activities.
2. Purpose of Recount text
In writing we have a purpose before making writing, especially in recount writing, what we want our writing to do and to describe accurately retell an
incident in the past moment. It means that, all activities and incident in the past moment will be described in the text. A recount has social function. Recount “tell
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Mark Anderson and Kathy Anderson, Text Types in English, Chapel street: Macmillan, 1997, p.48
what happened”. The purpose of a social recount is to document a series of events and evaluate their significance in some way. It is also to give the audience a
descriptions of what occurred and when it occurred The purpose of recount text is either to inform or to entertain the audience.
There is no complication among the participants and that differentiates from narrative
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. The story of recount has expressions of attitude and feeling, usually made by narrator about the event.
3. Linguistic Features of Recount text
A recount text usually has three main sections. The first paragraph gives background information about who, what, where and when called orientation.
This is followed by a series of paragraph that retells the event of order in which they happened. Some recounts have a concluding paragraph ever this is not
always necessary. The language features usually found in a recount text are
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: a.
Proper nouns to identify those involved in the text in orientation b.
Descriptive words to give details who, what, when, where and how. c.
The use of the past tense to retell the events d.
Words that show the order of events for example, first, next, then
4. Schematic Structures of Recount text
