Recount and Narrative Texts

Complied to Fulfill Group Assignment of

Genre Based Literacy

ARRANGED BY:
Group 5
Billy Bimantoro 1908103152
Intan Sari 1908103042
Nur Fadhillatus Sa’adah 1908103174
Nisa Nur’Aisyah 1908103061

Supporting Lecturer:
Mohammad Andi Hakim M. Hum

English Language Teaching Department

Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Faculty
State Institute of Syekh Nurjati Cirebon
Academic Year 2021/2022
 Introduction

The teachers have to explain the lesson in their classroom based on the School-Based
Curriculum. In the School-Based Curriculum, we can find text types or usually call as a genre.
The teachers have to comprehend it before explaining it to the students. There are kinds of text
types or genres that should be taught to students in Senior High School. They are recount,
narrative, report, procedure, news item, and etc. Texts do not always conform to the typical
classifications perfectly. Understanding types of text should be aimed at understanding general
guiding principles. Studying types of text should be read as studying genres and not for a factual
direction in writing a text.

A narrative is a text focusing on specific participants. Its social function is to tell stories
of past events and to entertain the readers. The generic structures of narrative are orientation,
complication, evaluation, resolution, and reorientation. A recount is a text which retells events or
experiences in the past. Its purpose is either to inform or to entertain the audience. There is no
complication among the participants, it’s different from the narrative. The generic structures of
the recount are Orientation, events, and reorientation.

Discussion

Recount Text

A. Definition of Recount Text

Recount text is a type of English text that retells events or experiences in the past
(Murviana, 2012). The purpose of Recount text is to provide information or to entertain the
reader and to list and describe past experiences by retelling events in the order in which they
happened (Ramli, Suhartono, and Novita, 2013). In the Recount text no complications
(Complications) as in the Narrative text.

B. Generic Structure
1. Orientation
Tells about background information about who, where, when the incident or event
occurred.
2. Events
 Tells a series of events that occur in chronological order.
3. Re-orientation
It is the conclusion or conclusion of the story. To close a story, we can give our opinion
about the story.
C. Language Features
– Using the simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect
continuous tense.
– Using temporal sequence, e.g. On Saturday. On Monday, On Sunday
– Focus on specific participant, e.g. I (the writer)
– Using the conjunctions, such as: then, before, after, etc.
– Using action verb, e.g. went, stayed
D. Example of Recount Text
Here is the example of recount text:

My Holiday in Bandung
Orientation: Last year, I went to Bandung. I spent my holiday there. I went to
Bandung by train. The train schedule from Cirebon was at 08.00 AM and arrived in
Bandung at 12.00 AM.

Events: On the first day, I went to Bandung zoo because I loved animals. The ticket
price was only Rp 25.000. The animals there were very complete.
On the second day, I went to the geological museum and talked with the guide about
geology. It made me understand the geology. I saw rocks collection t there. After that, I
went to Bandung train station because I had to go home to Cirebon.

Reorientation: My holiday in Bandung was only two days but It was a very interesting
holiday.
Narrative Text

A. Definition of Narrative Text

B. Generic Structure
1. Orientation: It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are
introduced. (person, time, and place)
2. Complication: where the problems in the story developed.
3. Resolution: where the problems in the story is solved.
Sometimes (generic structure) narrative text can be contained: Orientation, Complication,
Evaluation, Resolution, and Reorientation. Even though “Evaluation” and
“Reorientation” it is optional; can be added or not. Evaluation contains of controlling and
evaluating a love adventure or conflict. Reorientation contains the conclusion of the end
story.
C. Language Features
1. Using part action verb: Climbed, Turned, Brought, etc
2. Using specific noun as pronoun of person, animal in the story. Example: The king,
the queen, etc.
3. Using adjectives which are for noun phrase. Example: Long black, hair, two red
apples, etc
4. Using time connectives and Conjunctions to arrange the events. Examples: Then,
before, after, soon, etc.
5. Using adverbs and adverbial phrase to show the location of events. Examples: Here,
in the mountain, ever after, etc.
6. Using dialogue to elicit an emotional response from the reader.
7. Using Past Tense
8. Using of variety of simple, compound and complex sentences
D. Example of Narrative Text

Snow White
Orientation: Once upon a time there lived a little girl named snow white. She lived
with her aunt and uncle because her parents were died.

Complication 1: One day she heard her Uncle and Aunt talking about leaving Snow
White in the castle because they both wanted to go America and they didn’t have
enough money to sake Snow White.
Snow White did not want her Uncle and Aunt to do this, so she decided it would be
best if she ran away. The next morning she ran away from home when her Aunt and
Uncle were having breakfast. She ran away into the woods.

Resolution: Then she saw this little cottage she knocked but no one answered, so she
went inside and fell asleep.
Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There
they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The
dwarfs said, “what is your name?” Snow White said, “My name is Snow White.” Doc,
one of the dwarfs, said, “If you wish, you may live here with us. “Snow White said,
“Oh could I? Thank you. “Then Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story and
finally Snow White and the 7 dwarfs lived happily ever after.
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