genre based approach as the main approach. Mediating this issue, the teachers as a facilitator need to drive the teaching learning process with more practice.
b. English Syllabus on School Based Curriculum 2006
SMPN 1 Jogonalan applies School Based Curriculum 2006. That curriculum allows the teacher to develop the teaching learning process by using the syllabus from
the government. Based on regulation of ministry of education No. 22 of 2006, the arrangement of the School Based Curriculum started in the 20072008 academic year
guided by Standards of content SI and the Standards of Competency SK for the basic and secondary education. Each standard of competency consists of several basic
competences. One of the competences in the second semester of eight grade is practicing reading aloud. Reading aloud applied both in descriptive and recount text
is presented in the figure 2 below.
Figure 2 : English Syllabus of Grade Eight
Source: Wayan and Pudjohartono 2008
c. Recount Text
Recount text is one of the genres in genre based approach taught in Indonesian curriculum. Recount text is one of the writing texts in English which deals with
recount experiences happening in the past. Anderson 2000: 48 stated that a recount is a text retelling past events sequentially. The purpose of this text is to inform the
audience a description of what and when an event occured.
There are several language features of recount text according to Anderson 2000. The first is using the
“past tense to retell the events” in making sentences because it tells the past evidence. Secondly, it uses proper nouns. Moreover, it also
uses “descriptive words to give details about who, what, where and how” in the form of adverb and adverbial phrases to express time, place and manner. The last is using
the “words that show the order of events for example, first, next, then” or
conjunction and time connectives to sort the event or events. These features can be the consideration of both writing and comprehending recount texts.
In comprehending recount text, there is a generic structure that must be realized while reading the text. Structure of recount text is divided into three parts
such as orientation, events and reorientation as stated by Anderson 2000. The first is orientation, the author tells an introduction in the form of information about who,
where, when the event or events that happened in the past. In second part are events, the author recounts the events which are usually written in chronological order. It also
consists of personal comments about the event or events recounted in the ... “sequence of events that recount the past in the order in which the events occured”.
The reorientation is the stage of repetition introduction in the first line. Anderson called it as concluding paragraph. Repetition should not be the summary of all events.
By knowing the about the structure of recount text, it can assist the reader to comprehend the passage.
2. The Nature of Reading
