material is relevant to the students‟ ability. That is way the objective of the learning process can be reach effectively.
Simplified texts pay less attention to the essence of writing: communicating with an audience. This has led to the well-justified consensus that
simplified material is not normal discourse text written for communication. However, one strength of simplified materials is they have the best material for
teaching beginning and intermediate students how to write the text. They are at the right linguistic level. In addition, simplified materials are short, and the
beginning levels have illustrations as an aid in comprehension. Simplified materials can
help the beginner students‟ comprehension in understanding the recount text.
2.10. Advantages and Disadvantages of Authentic Materials
In using authentic materials, there must be strengths and weakness that will be elaborated in following section.
A. The Advantages of Authentic Materials
Using authentic materials, the students will gain the big two advantages. The first is that authentic materials have a positive effect on learners‟ need and
motivation because they provide authentic cultural information and exposure to real language. The materials are also up-to-date. Second, the teaching will
be more creative because authentic materials provide a wide variety of text types. The language styles are not easily found in conventional teaching
materials. Thus, authentic materials are useful for improving the communicative aspects of the language
.
B. The Disadvantages of Authentic Materials
There are two weaknesses when presenting authentic materials in the class. First, authentic materials often contains difficult language, difficult
vocabulary items and complex language structures, which causes a burden for the teacher in lower-level classes and low level students.
Too many structures are mixed so lower levels have a hard time decoding the texts. Hence, it can be
frustrating when used with less proficient learners. Besides that,
the use of authentic materials takes so much time for the teachers and the learners. The
special preparation is needed to collect the materials.
2.11. Advantages and Disadvantages of Simplified Materials
In using simplified material, there must be strengths and weakness that will be elaborated in following section.
A. The Advantages of Simplified Materials
The simplified materials have two big advantages in language learning. Firstly, the language used in simplified materials has clear objective to
develop the students ‟ comprehension and students‟ need in mastering
material. The materials are also relevant, useful and adapted for a particular aspect focused on what students are learning at the point. Secondly, they
contain well formed sentences all the time. In writing, they are useful for teaching grammar.
B. The Disadvantages of Simplified Materials
There are two big weaknesses of simplified materials. The first one is simplified materials sometimes present inauthentic language because texts,
dialogues, and other aspects of content tend to be specially written to incorporate teaching points and are often not representative of real language
use. They often present an idealized view of the world or fail to present real issues. The second is the materials are presented generally, it means that they
may not reflect the interests and needs of students.
2.12. Theoretical Assumption
Referring to the literature reviews, the researcher supposes that the students‟
writing ability in recount text should be integrated with the using of effective materials. A good material can make the students have good ability in writing
recount text. Then they understand about the structure and context of the text. So, the students will be easy to practice language skill in writing recount text.
The researcher has assumption that authentic materials and simplified materials will give different influence
for students‟ writing ability of recount text in each aspect of writing. Authentic materials makes the learners interact with the
real language and content rather than the form. The learners will feel that they are learning a target language as it can be used outside the classroom. The forms of
authentic materials in recount text have many varieties that can help the learners understand not only the meaning of the text but also the use of the materials. The
main ideas of using authentic materials in the classroom is to expose the learners to go to real language. They are more up to date materials than the textbooks that
generally more stimule and motivate the learners in the writing recount text classroom.
