c. The Language Features of Recount Text
The language features of recount text are divided into several, they are: 1 Written in the past tense, e.g. I went 2 in chronological order, using
connectives that signal time, for example, then, next, after, meanwhile. 3 focused on individual or group participants, for example, in first person: I,
we, or third person: he, she, they, etc.
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In other words, those language features above help to write the recount text. The first is proper nouns to identify those involves in the text. It is useful
to show who, where and when the story took place, for example; Rina, at home, South Africa, etc. The second is descriptive words. It is used to give
details about who, what, when, where, and how the events happen. The next is the use of the past tense. Because recount is retelling a story that happens in
the past time, so the use of the past tense is needed to make sure the readers that the events happened in the past time. The last is words that show the
order of events, for example, first, next, then, etc.
d. The Types of Recount Text
Commonly, there are many types of recount text, they are: 1 eyewitness accounts, 2 letters, 3 conversations, 4 newspaper reports, 5 television,
6 interviews, and 7 speech. Firstly is the eyewitness account. The purpose of the eyewitness accounts
is to provide details about the past event chronologically, such as the accidents, the explosion a flight, etc. the audience can be a reader of
newspaper or can be a police officer. Secondly, it is letters. Letters is written for some reasons, one of them is to tell the events that have happened in the
past, for example writing about the activities in last holiday to a friend. Thirdly, it is conversations. The conversation is spoken by two or more
people to tell the listener about something. In this case, the conversation tells about past event, for example, telling about what happened this morning or
last night. The next type is newspaper reports. In newspaper, the reader can read about some events that have happened in the order in which they occur,
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Anderson, op.cit., p. 24
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