20 Analysis linguistic or generic features of describing people text
Contextual factors Field :
mother Tenor : writer to unknown readers
Mode : written Textual Factors
Generic structure : Introduction
Description of physical appearance Description of personal qualities
Description of hobbies and interests Conclusion
Vocabulary : related to the field – curly, lips, broad, friendly, etc
Grammar : verb type
: action verbs e.g. : teach, take care, and love
verb form : simple present tense e.g. : is to express generality Likely functions and associated grammar and vocabulary
Language functions
Signalfeatures Describing appearance
Adjective curly, brown, thin Expressing addition
furthermore, moreover, too, and In conclusion, we can see that each text type has own distinctive
characteristics, such as generic structure of Recount is Orientation, Series of events, Re-orientation
different from description text type is introduction, series of descriptions, and conclusion.
Furthermore, the verb form of recount text type is past tense, different from descriptive text type, which is simple present tense.
5. Competency Based Curriculum
A new curriculum, Competency Based Curriculum called CBC has been implemented in Indonesia since 2004. The CBC is designed to help students to
develop English communicative competence as life skill, the skills to make students survive in the modern communication where English is used Departemen
Pendidikan Nasional, 2004, p. 43. Curriculum itself is a general statement of goals and outcomes, learning
arrangements, assessments, and documentations relating to the arrangement of
21 programs within an educational institution. According to Mulyasa 2005, p. 38
competency is knowledge, skill and ability mastered by someone with the intention of doing cognitive, affective and psychomotor behaviors well. To sum up,
competency is someone’s ability to think and or to do something. It always deals with one’s intelligence, basic knowledge and other aspects: psychomotor, cognitive,
and affective.
6. Theoretical Bases in Competency-Based Curriculum
a. Language Model
Departemen Pendidikan Nasional 2004, p. 6 notes that a model which is
used as theoretical basic in Competency-Based Curriculum 2004 is language model. This model points out language in cultural contexts and situational contexts.
Figure 2.2: The Relation between Text and Context from Departemen Pendidikan Nasional, 2004, p. 7
Cultural Context Genre
Situational Context
Who is involved? Tenor
Subject Matter Channel
Field Mode
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