2. Second, squeeze the oranges. 3. Then, take a glass.
4. And then, put the squeezed oranges into the glass. 5. After that, pour the boiling water into the glass.
6. Next, add the sugar into the glass. 7. And next, stir all the ingredients carefully.
8. After that, add the ice cubes into the glass. 9. Finally, enjoy your orange juice.
f. Assessing Procedure Text
Assessing students writing ability require the clarity of objective or criterion which can be assessed through a variety of tasks. The following is assessment criteria
used for assessing the generic structure and grammatical features of procedure text writing
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: 1.
Genre-based criteria -
The writing mainly instructs or advises. -
The theme of writing is consistent with the task. -
The structure or staging of the text consistent with the genre. 2.
Textual language criteria: -
The text is formatted appropriately. -
The text uses correctly structured simple, compound and complex sentences.
- The text uses tense appropriately and consistently.
3. Syntactical language criteria:
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Peter Knapp Megan Watkins, Genre, Text, Grammar: Technologies for Teaching and Assessing Writing Sidney: University of New South Wales Press Ltd., 2005, p.176
- All main clauses have essential elements such as a main verb and
statements have the subject and main verb in the correct order. -
The subject and main verb agree in person and number. -
Prepositions are used appropriately and with some variety. -
Articles and plurals are used correctly. -
Sentence, simple and complex punctuation is punctuation is correct.
4. Spelling
- Most high-frequency words are spelt correctly.
- Most less frequently used words and words with common but not
simple pattern are spelt correctly. -
Most words with difficult or unusual patterns are spelt correctly. -
Most challenging words appropriate to the task are spelt correctly. -
All challenging words appropriate to the task spelt correctly.
2. Collocations
a. Definition of Collocation
Collocations are the way in which words are used together regularly. The term of collocations are derived from the Latin word collocare which means to place
together or to assemble, and this term introduced by J. R. Firth in 1930s. Collocations are seen as language chunks which are memorized by speakers as whole units in
order to achieve language fluency.
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They are the occurrence of two or more words within a short space of each other in a text. They are a pair or group of words that are
often used together.
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Violeta Seretan, Syntax-Based Collocation Extraction. Text, Speech and Language Technology Series Vol.44, Dordrect: Spinger, 2011, p.9
