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e. Stage 5. Linking to Related Texts.
In this stage, the students investigate how what they have learnt in this teaching learning cycle can be related to other texts in the same or similar
contexts and also related to future or past cycle of teaching and learning Feez, 1998.
The teacher and students should cooperate well to achieve a successful learning and teaching process. Considering that teaching writing using genre-
based approach needs some stages, it is also the same when teachers are teaching the students how to write a recount text. The stages can help teacher deliver the
knowledge of how to write a recount text to the students well. Finally, it is expected that the results of students’ writing are satisfying.
2. Recount
This part presents a discussion of recount. The discussion talks about definition, communicative purpose, types, generic structures, and grammatical
features of recount text.
a. Definition of Recount
According to the Board of Studies New South Wales 1994, as cited by Mulya 2007: 20, recount is known as a series of events which is told or written
using specific generic structures and grammatical features. A recount is a spoken or written relating of an event that happened in the past Doyle et al., 2004. It
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means that a recount text consists of a series of past events and it has its own characteristics which differ to other types of texts.
b. Communicative Purpose of Recount
Hyland 2003 argues that the communicative purpose of a recount text is to reconstruct past experiences by retelling events in chronological order. Past
experiences are any events happened in the past, such as a robbery crime happened two days ago. The students can make a recount text by retelling how the
crime happened starting from the first event until the last event based on the chronology of the crime. Gerot and Wignell 1994 add that either informing or
entertaining its audience by retelling events is the purpose of a recount text.
c. Types of Recount
There are some types of recount. Doyle et al. 2004: 57 state three types of recount. They are:
1 Personal recount
It describes events that the speaker or writer was personally involved in, for example a text about the writer’s unforgettable moment. In the text,
the writer is personally involved so the writer can write a personal recount. 2
Factual recount
It is used to record the circumstances of a particular event in which the speaker or writer might or might not have been involved. One example of
factual recount is a text about crime in a newspaper.
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3 Historical recount
It is a variant of the factual recount and, as the name suggests, relates significant events in history. The example of this type of recount is the story
of World War I which is written in chronological order.
d. Generic Structure of Recount
