Proceedings of the Sixth of International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2018)

Process Types of Transitivity System in English Department Students’ Narrative Texts

Authors
Tengku Thyrhaya Zein, Tengku Silvana Sinar, Nurlela Nurlela, Muhammad Yusuf
Corresponding Author
Tengku Thyrhaya Zein
Available Online February 2019.
DOI
10.2991/icoelt-18.2019.21How to use a DOI?
Keywords
process, transitivity system, narrative text, systemic functional, teaching Writing
Abstract

The present study is aimed at discovering the process types of transitivity system in English department students’ narrative texts and its pedagogical implementation in teaching writing. Qualitative content analysis was utilized as the design of the research and the instrument used was writing sheet. The data were taken from clauses in narrative texts written by 24 students of English education study program of Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara. The data were analyzed by using transitivity in systemic functional grammar theory proposed by Halliday. The findings show that there are 801 clauses in the data and the six types of process were also discovered. The dominant process type found was material process totalling to 427 occurrences (53.3%) followed successively by the occurrences of mental (139 or 17.3%), relational (124 or 15.4%), verbal (58 or 7.2%), behavioral (24 or 3.6%), and existential process (24 or 3%). The pedagogical implementation is that the lecturer has to apply adequate technique and approach, and give some students more practice since they missed to present dialogue to represent verbal process in their narrative text.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Sixth of International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
February 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-669-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icoelt-18.2019.21How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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