Thematic Realization in University Students’ Narrative Text: Systemic Functional Perspective

T. Thyrhaya Zein, T. Silvana Sinar, Nurlela, Muhammad Yusuf

2018

Abstract

This study deals aims at investigating thematic realization in university students’ narrative texts based on systemic functional perspective and its pedagogical implementation in teaching writing. The research design employed in this study was qualitative content analysis. The research instrument used in this study was writing sheet. The data were taken from narrative text written by 20 second-year students of English Literature study program of Universitas Sumatera Utara. Then, the data were in the form of clause and analyzed by using textual function realized by Theme and Rheme. The finding shows that there are 20 different titles of narrative text comprising of 1086 Theme occurrences. The occurrences of Theme types successively are topical (725 or 66.76%), textual (336 or 30.94%), and interpersonal Theme (25 or 2.30%). It leads to the conclusion that those three types of Theme appear in the data, and topical Theme is the dominant Theme characterizing university students’ narrative texts. The pedagogical implementation is some university students failed to present the interaction among characters in their narrative text so that the lecturers should give more materials on the use of interpersonal Theme markers in writing course.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Zein T., Sinar T., Nurlela. and Yusuf M. (2018). Thematic Realization in University Students’ Narrative Text: Systemic Functional Perspective.In Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR, ISBN 978-989-758-449-7, pages 1261-1266. DOI: 10.5220/0010071212611266

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosteerr18,
author={T. Thyrhaya Zein and T. Silvana Sinar and Nurlela and Muhammad Yusuf},
title={Thematic Realization in University Students’ Narrative Text: Systemic Functional Perspective},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,},
year={2018},
pages={1261-1266},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010071212611266},
isbn={978-989-758-449-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,
TI - Thematic Realization in University Students’ Narrative Text: Systemic Functional Perspective
SN - 978-989-758-449-7
AU - Zein T.
AU - Sinar T.
AU - Nurlela.
AU - Yusuf M.
PY - 2018
SP - 1261
EP - 1266
DO - 10.5220/0010071212611266