3. Indonesian Government
The research is also beneficial for the Indonesian government especially The Ministry of National Education of Indonesia by which provides them
feedback on how students of microteaching class of Sanata Dharma University Yogyakarta, who are expected to be future teachers, comprehension of the text
types is; so that the government produces more trainings and seminars for the teachers and future teachers as necessary.
4. Other Researchers
The research is expected to give insight on the level of comprehension of text types of the microteaching students of Sanata Dharma University. It also
expected that the research will be beneficial for anyone in need for further research studies e.g. the research participants are real English teachers especially
considering that there is not many research have been conducted on this topic.
5. Policy Makers
The research is also projected to give suggestions and guidelines for evaluations of the education policy. It is expected that with the completion of the
research, the policy makers will be able to give a review of the existing policies in education that will lead into a better quality of education in Indonesia and
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F. Definition of Terms
This section presents the definition of terms which is intended to avoid confusion
and misconception,
namely microteaching
students, Text
comprehension, and text types.
1. Microteaching Students
Students of English Education of Sanata Dharma University Yogyakarta are able to take this subject after they have passed the prerequisite subjects. The
goal of this class is as follows. The students understand the concepts and procedure of English language teaching and are able to apply them in a real
classroom teaching situation and to evaluate their teaching performance Nurwidasa, Bram, Budiraharja, Herawati 2004: p. 110.
2. Text Comprehension
Text comprehension refers to “begins with decoding of words, processing of those words in relation to one another to understand the many small ideas in the
text. And then, both unconsciously and consciously, it operates on the ideas in the text to construct the overall meaning encoded in the text” Pressley, 2000, p. 551.
In this research, text comprehension refers to the participants’ comprehension of the 12 kinds of text types.
3. Text Types
These refer to the 12 kinds of text types proposed by The Ministry of National Education of Indonesia which are to be learnt by Senior High School
students. Those text types are recount, narrative, procedure, descriptive, news item, report, analytical exposition, hortatory exposition, spoof, explanation,
discussion, and review. Each type of the texts has three major elements. They are social function, generic structure, and lexicogrammatical features. For example,
the social function of recounts is to retell events for the purpose of informing or
entertaining. It reconstructs past events in time order in which it occurred. Some
of it assesses the significance, other recounts responses emotively, and others assesses aspects of events critically. Recounts usually have their basic structure
those are orientation, events, and reorientation. Orientation provides the setting and introduces participants. Events tell what happen, in what sequence. Recounts
focus on specific participants, use past tense and material processes. It uses
circumstances of time and place.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
In this chapter, the researcher presented two major issues namely the theoretical description and theoretical framework used in the research. This
chapter also presented three major theories related to the research namely Text Comprehension, Microteaching, and Types of Texts. This chapter also presented a
distinction between Text Types and genre.
A. Theoretical Description
There were three major theories related to the research namely Text Comprehension, Microteaching, and Types of Texts. Here, the researcher also
presented a distinction between Text Types and genre.
1. Text Comprehension
Text comprehension refers to “beginning with decoding of words, processing of those words in relation to one another to understand the many small
ideas in the text, and then, both unconsciously and consciously, operating on the ideas in the text to construct the overall meaning encoded in the text” Pressley,
2000, p. 551. It is generally agreed that the understanding of written text called upon both bottom-up word recognition processes and top-down comprehension
processes Perfetti, 1999. Comprehending texts involves the flexible use of PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
different sources of information, including in some cases, the integration of linguistic information with graphic information.
Figure 2.1. Model of the Reading Comprehension Process
Orthographic units Phonological units
Written text
Word representation
Sentence representation
Prior knowledge Situation model
Text model PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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