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CHAPTER II THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK
In this chapter, the researcher discusses: the understanding of narrative text, the purposes of narrative text, the grammatical features of narrative text,
schematic structure of narrative text, definition of collaborative strategic reading, purpose of collaborative strategic reading, procedure of collaborative strategic
reading, teaching reading using collaborative strategic reading, previous study, theoretical framework, theoretical hypotheses.
A. Narrative Text
1. The Understanding of Narrative Text
Narrative can be defined as a story that is written to entertain people and to tell a story or various experience in different ways.
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It means that narrative is an interesting story to entertain the audience with a set various character, event, and
something that can be learned from the story. In addition, Steven stated that a narrative recounts a story, a series of events in a temporal sequence.
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In other words, narrative is a text which communicates the readers or listener about a
sequence of events of a story. Meanwhile, Anis Apriliawati defines a narrative as a text that telling something or story in the past event and usually applies past
tense.
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It means that, narrative tells a story that happened in the past. Therefore, the correct tense of the text is past tense.
Moreover, Hazel gives explanation about narrative as follows: a. Narrative is needed to develop our comprehension and expression which it
always changes over time. b. The time in narrative is subjective and elastic, not objective.
c. Narrative construction have two crucial functional elements: those are event selection and even sequencing.
d. Narrative represented of reality from a particular perspective.
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Sanggam Siahaan and Kisno Shinoda, Generic Text Structure Yogyakarta: Graha Ilmu, 2008, p. 73.
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Steven Cohan, Telling Stories. A Theoretical Analysis of Narratin Fiction, London: Tylor and Francis e-Library, 2001, p. 73.
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Anis Apriliawati, Comprehending Text Types Bekasi: Ganesha Exact, 2009, p. 39.