Understanding Indonesian Secondary-Level Students’ Procedure Texts Writing: An SFL Approach-Comparative Analysis to Expert Text

Dida Firman Hidayat

2017

Abstract

Albeit there have been many studies conducted in respect of procedure text writing enhancement, very little of them show a proper procedure text as an example which leads students to missapplications in their writing. This study, therefore, aims to clarify an expert procedure text and also use it as a cornerstone to find students’ misapplications in their writing. The expert used in this study was taken from TOEIC examination and three different levels of secondary students’ writing as the representatives. Comparative document analysis under descriptive qualitative design was employed to obtain adequate information. Purposively, the instrument used in this study was a guideline taken from Halliday’s work regarding interpersonal, ideational, and textual metafunctions and Derewianka’s language features of a procedure text. The findings indicated that the TOEIC procedure text meets the requirements considering the transparencies of its stages and registers used. Such reflection also provided another insight that in any level of students’ writing, there are still identified some impediments, i.e. absence of adverbial details, lack of appropriate vocabularies, and lack of cohesive sentence construction. In conclusion, the three students still had some difficulties related to the format, style, and register. Further study may be worth doing to concern on what pedagogical implications are beneficial to employ in maintaining students’ creativity in the writing of procedure texts under GBA approach.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hidayat D. (2017). Understanding Indonesian Secondary-Level Students’ Procedure Texts Writing: An SFL Approach-Comparative Analysis to Expert Text.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 91-97. DOI: 10.5220/0007162600910097

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Dida Firman Hidayat},
title={Understanding Indonesian Secondary-Level Students’ Procedure Texts Writing: An SFL Approach-Comparative Analysis to Expert Text},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={91-97},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007162600910097},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - Understanding Indonesian Secondary-Level Students’ Procedure Texts Writing: An SFL Approach-Comparative Analysis to Expert Text
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Hidayat D.
PY - 2017
SP - 91
EP - 97
DO - 10.5220/0007162600910097