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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS

A. The Data Description of English in Focus Textbook

The object of this research is the reading passages of a textbook used in SMPN 1 Gunungputri. The title of this textbook is English in Focus written by Artono Wardiman, Masduki B. Jahur, and M. Sukirman Djusma. It is published by Puskurbuk, National Education Department in 2008 to be used for third grade Grade IX of Junior High School. Because it is published by the National Education Department, the textbook is signed as an Electronic School Book BSE. It means that the government has bought the copyright of the textbook from the first publisher to be downloaded by all English teachers. The textbook is developed based on the curriculum used, that is School- Based Curriculum KTSP. Therefore, the textbook is one of the textbooks which are recommended by the government to be used for teaching and learning process for third grade of Junior High School. This textbook consists of 5 chapters and it has 152 pages. Each chapter has every language skills; those are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Language component is also presented in the textbook to be taught such as pronunciation and grammar. In the end of the semester, the textbook has the review of what has been learned by giving exercise to evaluate the student’s mastery of the materials. In this textbook, there are 11 reading passages which are divided into 4 procedure texts, 5 report texts, and 2 narrative texts. Chapter 1 and 3 presents the procedure text, chapter 2 and 5 presents the report text, and chapter 4 presents the narrative text. There are three genres that have to be learned by the students in the third grade of Junior High School and its genre has each characteristics. According to School-Based Curriculum the three genres are Procedure, Report, and Narrative. Procedure Genre Report Narrative Figure 4.1 Genres in School-Based Curriculum Social Function Characteristics of Genre Generic Structure Grammatical Feature Figure 4.2 Characteristics of Genre Each genre has different characteristics as mentioned below: Procedure : to provide instructions for making something, doing something or getting somewhere Social Function Report : to classify andor describe using facts about the subject’s parts, behavior and qualities Narrative : to entertain, to amuse, to stimulate emotion, and to deal with actual or various experience Figure 4.3 Social Function of Genre adapted from Mark Anderson Kathy Anderson Goal Procedure Materials Steps General Classification Generic Structure Report Description Conclusion Orientation Complication Narrative Sequence of events Resolution Coda Figure 4.4 Generic Structure of Genre adapted from Mark Anderson Kathy Anderson Use of simple present tense Use of imperative Procedure Use of temporal conjunction Use of technical language Use of adverb General noun Grammatical Feature Report Use simple present tense Technical language Specific participant and place Time word Narrative Action word Adjective Use past tense. Figure 4.5 Grammatical Feature of Genre adapted from Mark Anderson Kathy Anderson