RECOUNT TEXT
Recount text is a text that is user to retell event for the purpose of forming or entertaining.
The generic structures of recount text are :
- Orientation (it gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text such as who was involved, where it happened, when it happened).
- Events (a series of events, ordered in a choronological sequence).
- Re – orientation (restates the writer’s opinion or personal comment of the writer the inceident).
- Use of simple past tense
- Use of temporal conjunction (when, after, before, next, later, then).
- Use of personal pronoun (I, we)
I. Text Recount
Text recount is a reading text loretan event for the purpose of informing or entertaining.
II. Sosial Function
To retell event for the purpose in informing or entertaining
Significant Lexicosrammatical teartuter
- Focus on specific participants
- Use of material processer
- Use of past tense
- Focus on temporal sequence
The generic structure
Orientation : Set the scane it provides the background’s information
needed to understand the text such as what it happened.
Event’t : The frequency on incidents. At varios stagor there may be
same personal comment on the incide we call it re-orientation.
Re-orientation : It’s used to retell past event for the purpose (The condusion
of-of informing or entertaining the story).
Examples
Earthquake
Orientation : I wass driwing along the coar road when
the car suddenly lurched to one side.
- Event 1 : At first, thougt a type had gone but then I sak telegrahph poler calapsing like matc sticks.
- Event 2 : The rocks come tumbling across The road an I had to abandon the car
- Event 3 : When I got back to down, well as I said there wasn’t much left