AN ANALYSIS... Hastuti Handayani Mater’s Program in Linguistics, Diponegoro University
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According to The Content Standard, there are 4 meanings are tested in English UAN for Junior High School : ideational, interpersonal, textual and logical
meaning, therefore all items of UAN should contain these meanings . Every item contains nuence of meanings metafunctional . But only the
strongest meaning or the most salient meaning will be discussed.
There are 3 items of Listening competence. The item number 1 with indicator
Responding expression of asking fact, containing Logical meaning.
The item number 4 with indicator
Responding expression of asking opinion, containing Interpersonal meaning.
The item number 5 with indicator
Responding expression of
asking service, containing Interpersonal meaning
b. Speaking Competence
The item number 2 and 7 belong to Speaking Competence. Every item contains nuence of meaning. They are presented in the following table :
Table 4.2. The Speaking Competencies tested in The English UAN for Junior
High School 2006 2007
UAN 20062007
Number
Expressing meaning in very simple transactional and interpersonal
conversation, with Indicator :
Expressing meaning of asking information
Expressing meaning of giving attention
2 textual meaning
7
interpersonal meaning
Source : Processed Secondary data , 2008
AN ANALYSIS... Hastuti Handayani Mater’s Program in Linguistics, Diponegoro University
©2009, UNDIP Institutional Repository
There are 2 numbers of Speaking Competence. The item number 2 has the indicator
of expressing meaning of asking information, containing textual meaning.
The item number 7 with the indicator
expressing meaning of giving attention containing Interpersonal meaning
c. Reading Competence
The items number 6 - 48 belong to the Reading Competence, consisting of Short Essays and Short Functional Text. Every item contains nuence of meaning.
They are presented in the following table :
Table 4.3. The Reading Competencies tested in The English UAN for Junior
High School 2006 2007 in the form of Essay. UAN
„06’07 Responding meaning and rhetorical steps in simple short essay in the
forms of :
Number Descriptive
Narrative Recount
Procedure Report
8 Logical
meaning 9
Ideational Meaning
10 Ideational
Meaning 14
Ideational meaning
15 Logical
meaning 16
Logical meaning
17 Ideational
meaning 19
Logical Meaning
20
Logical Meaning
AN ANALYSIS... Hastuti Handayani Mater’s Program in Linguistics, Diponegoro University
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UAN ‘06’07
Responding meaning and rhetorical steps in simple short essay in the forms of :
Number Descriptive
Narrative Recount
Procedure Report
22 Ideational
meaning 23
Ideational meaning
24 Ideational
meaning 27
Ideational meaning
28 Ideational
meaning 29
Logical meaning
31 Ideational
meaning 32
Ideational meaning
33 Ideational
meaning 37
Ideational meaning
38 Ideational
meaning 39
Ideational meaning
40 Logical
meaning 41
Ideational meaning
Source : Processed Secondary data , 2008
The Reading competence contains 12 numbers of Short Functional Text, 8 Descriptives, 3 Narratives, 3 Procedures and 9 Reports. Most of them contain
ideational meaning, except the items number 8, 15, 16, 19, 20, and 29, contain logical meaning. There is no Recount text.
The Short Functional Text consists of some different types as follows :
AN ANALYSIS... Hastuti Handayani Mater’s Program in Linguistics, Diponegoro University
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Table 4.4. The Reading Competencies tested in The English UAN for Junior
High School 2006 2007 in the form of Short Functional Test
UAN 0607
No
Responding meaning in Simple and Short Functional text in the forms of :
Invita tion
Announ cement
Greeti ng
Card Personal
Letter Instruc
tion Notice
Advertis ement
Short message
6 Ideational
meaning 11
Ideational meaning
12 Ideational
meaning 13
Ideational meaning
21 Ideational
meaning 42
Ideational meaning
43 Ideational
meaningl 44
Ideational meaning
45 Logical
meanng 46
Ideational meaning
47 Ideational
meaning 48
Ideational meaning
Source : Processed Secondary data , 2008
In English UAN 20062007, the Reading competence contains 12 numbers of
Short Functional text; they consist of : 3 Personal letters, 4 Notices, 3 Advertisement, and 2 Short Messages. Most of them contain ideational meaning,
except the item number 45 contains logical meaning. There is no Invitation, Greetingcard, Instruction, and Announcement text.
AN ANALYSIS... Hastuti Handayani Mater’s Program in Linguistics, Diponegoro University
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d. Writing Competence