F. Definition of Terms
This section presents the definition of terms which is intended to avoid confusion
and misconception,
namely microteaching
students, Text
comprehension, and text types.
1. Microteaching Students
Students of English Education of Sanata Dharma University Yogyakarta are able to take this subject after they have passed the prerequisite subjects. The
goal of this class is as follows. The students understand the concepts and procedure of English language teaching and are able to apply them in a real
classroom teaching situation and to evaluate their teaching performance Nurwidasa, Bram, Budiraharja, Herawati 2004: p. 110.
2. Text Comprehension
Text comprehension refers to “begins with decoding of words, processing of those words in relation to one another to understand the many small ideas in the
text. And then, both unconsciously and consciously, it operates on the ideas in the text to construct the overall meaning encoded in the text” Pressley, 2000, p. 551.
In this research, text comprehension refers to the participants’ comprehension of the 12 kinds of text types.
3. Text Types
These refer to the 12 kinds of text types proposed by The Ministry of National Education of Indonesia which are to be learnt by Senior High School
students. Those text types are recount, narrative, procedure, descriptive, news item, report, analytical exposition, hortatory exposition, spoof, explanation,
discussion, and review. Each type of the texts has three major elements. They are social function, generic structure, and lexicogrammatical features. For example,
the social function of recounts is to retell events for the purpose of informing or
entertaining. It reconstructs past events in time order in which it occurred. Some
of it assesses the significance, other recounts responses emotively, and others assesses aspects of events critically. Recounts usually have their basic structure
those are orientation, events, and reorientation. Orientation provides the setting and introduces participants. Events tell what happen, in what sequence. Recounts
focus on specific participants, use past tense and material processes. It uses
circumstances of time and place.
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