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SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS
PERSPECTIVE: AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS A Case Study
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1.2. Statement of problems
In order to find out students’ ability in writing Descriptive text, it is asked the following
research questions: 1.
How is the students’ ability in writing Descriptive Texts in terms of the schematic structure and linguistic features?
2. What difficulties are faced by the students in writing Descriptive texts?
1.3. Aims of the study
Related to the statement of the problems, the current research aimed at investigating: 1.
The ways in which the students produce Descriptive text in terms of the schematic structure and linguistic features.
2. Students’ difficulties in writing Descriptive text.
1.4. Scope of the study
There is a scope or limitation of the research. The limitation of the research focuses only on discovering the
students’ ability in writing Descriptive text by analyzing the students’ texts using Systemic Functional Linguistics SFL.
Descriptive text has been chosen because of several reasons. First, Descriptive text is a representation of factual genre text and fundamental to be used in many areas of life Emilia
Christie, 2013, p.1. Second, learning Descriptive text is important in providing students the basic knowledge of communication in English ibid.
Furthermore, the students’ ability can be seen through the schematic structure and linguistic features of the text by using Systemic Functional Linguistics SFL as proposed by
Halliday 1994, Gerot Wignell 1994, and Emilia 2010. Hence, in the current research, the texts are analyzed in terms of the schematic structure and linguistic features of the text
which is Descriptive text.
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SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS
PERSPECTIVE: AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS A Case Study
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1.5. Significance of the study
