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the Jakarta Post Exposing the Bailout of Bank Century” Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics Approach. In those researches, both writers, Intan and Fajar
did not discuss the influence of the attitudes to the register of the texts, and they did not discuss the reason why the attitudes are used in the texts satisfactorily. This is
because they did not use secondary data to connect between the phenomenon and the context.
In short, these situations provide research gaps for the resercher to conducts an analysis of appraisal to investigate the attitudes, engagement and graduation by
identifying the issues of controversy of sex education in US. That’s why; by conducting a research entitled “A Comparative Analysis on Appraisal of Two Texts
Exposing the Controversy of Sex Education Given in US Schools Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics Study, this research tries to analyze that phenomenon to find
out the of attitudes, the influence of the attitudes towards the texts, and the reasons why the attitudes are employed in the texts.
B. Research Question
Based on the research objective above, this research intends to answer the following questions:
1. What attitudes are employed in the texts?
2. How do the attitudes influence the texts?
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3. Why are the attitudes used in the texts?
C. Research Objective
Based on the background and problem statements above, the objectives of this research are:
1. To determine the attitudes discovered in the texts.
2. To determine the effects of the attitudes toward the texts.
3. To determine the reason why the attitudes are used in the texts.
D. Research Significance Benefit
The research on appraisal discovered in the Allvoices.com exposing the sex education given in public schools has the following significance:
1. To provide the influence of the attitides toward the register of the texts.
2. To provide the reason why the texts’ writers use a certain attitudes to show
their feeling toward an issue of sex education given in schools to conclude the prosody, genre and ideology of the texts
’ writers.
E. Scope of Research
The research is limited on the appraisal theory attitudes, engagement, and graduation. Specifically, the research is focused on the analysis of the two texts
exposing the controversy of sex education in school. The first text is entitled “Sex
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Education: Does it really work?” written by Hasnain Malik, and second text is entitled “Why sex education should be taught in schools” written by Zeeshan Ali
discovered in the Allvoices.com. The analysis of appraisal will cover the attitudes affect, judgment, and appreciation, graduation and the engagement to know the
types of attitudes, the prosody, genre and the ideology of the texts’ writers. This limitation is used to make the analysis focus only on the two articles above.
F. Thesis Organization
As a scientific writing, this thesis will be organized into five chapters, as follows:
Chapter I consists of Introduction. In this chapter the research introduces the background, problem statement, research objectives, research questions, research
significancebenefits, scope of research, and the organizational of the research report. Chapter II consists of Literature Review. It discusses some theories which are
related to the research. It covers mass media, Internet and Allvoices.com, sex education in US, systemic functional linguistics, appraisal, prosody and genre, and
the last one is ideology.
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Chapter III consists of Research Methodology. It discusses the research paradigm, research method, research location, sample and sampling technique, data
and source of data, data validity, and technique of data analysis. Chapter IV consists of Finding and Discussion. In this chapter, the research
answers the research questions using appraisal theory. Chapter V consists of Conclusion and Recommendations. In this chapter, the
research concludes the result and gives some recommendations.
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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW
