Unravel Students' Problems in Writing Recount Text: Below SFL Belt and TAD Strategy

Abstract

This paper offers an alternative to teach recount text grounded on systemic functional linguistics. Firstly, by employing qualitative study case design in purposing to unravel the specific phenomena based on the participants' perspective (Creswell, 1994), specifically by analysing students' writing below SFL perspective, it was found that students in Grade VIII Junior High School Ciparay encounter some problems in writing narrative text such as tense, the use of more than one process and finites, the absence of object or recipient, and the absence of themes. After discovering those analysed problem, this paper tried to to use a strategy called TAD (Transitions, Actions, Details). It is hoped that this strategy will improve students, ability in writing recount text.