Reflective Summary M4 La 1

Name : Julfrida Sufriati Purba

Participant’s Number : 19070515710054

School : SMP Swasta Nusantara Tigalingga

Instruction:

You will reflect on your learning the news reports with this modul, by answering the
following questions.

a. What knowledge and skills are new to you?

b. Which activities did you find the most difficult or complicated? Do you think they are
actually necessary to do. Explain your answers.

c. What would you suggest to do to improve the modul?

Answer:

a. After I have learned M4 La1, I have understood to analyze the social functions of news
reports regarding the issues, the target readers and the points of importance; I have
understood how to analize the structure of the text including headline, the newsworthy
even summarized on the first paragraph, and the elaboration of the event according to
each sources; I have understood how to analize the Lexico-grammatical features of the
news reports, such as: 1) Short, telegraphic information about story captured in
headline 2) use of direct and indirect sentences to report the events according to
witness or to witnesses and the source person 3) Dominant use of past tense 4) use
prepositional phrases to state the circumstances 4) Use of non-finite clauses to modify
people or things 5) use of non-finite clause to state the circumstances 6) possible use
of emotive words

b. The most difficult activities for me in this learning activities is in analyzing and
comparing the similarities and differences of some news reports in regard to the three
aspects of the text namely the social functions, the text structures and the lexico-
grammatical features. It took much time in doing the tasks. Now, I realize that there
are a lot of things that we need to know about report text.

c. To improve this module, here are some suggestions:1) this module should provide
accessible links to support the learning activities. I found that the link in the learning
task has error page. 2) The learning material should be more detail