GENRE (Kinds of Text) in English Language for Junior High School

There are many kinds of English text. Those are Recount, Report, Discussion, Explanation, Exposition, New Item, Anecdote, Narrative, Procedure, Descriptive, and Review. In this chapter, lets learn on Recount, Report, Narrative, Procedure and Descriptive.

1. Recount Text

• Social Function  : to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.

• Generic Stucture:

       a. Orientation    : provides the setting and introduces the participants
       b. Events           : tell what happened, in what sequences
       c. Reorientation: optional closure of events

• Significant Lexico-grammatical features:

Focus on specific participants, use material processes, circumstances on time and place, use past tense, focus on temporal sequence

2. Report Text

• Social Function : to describe the way things are with reference to a range of natural, man made, and      social phenomena in our environment

• Generic Structure:

              a. General classification: tells what phenomena under the discussion
              b. Description: tells what the phenomenon under the discussion is like in terms of parts, qualities, habits or behave.

• Significant Lexico-grammatical Features: Focus on generic participants, use relational processes to state what is and that which it is. use simple present tense

3. Narrative Text

• Social Function : to amuse, entertain

• Generic Structure:

                       a. Orientation: sets the scene and introduces the participants

                       b. Evaluations: a stepping back to evaluate the plight.

                       c. Complication: a crisis arises

                       d. Resolution : the crisis is resolved

                       e. reorientation: optional

• Significant lexiogrammatical features: 

Focus on specific participants, use material processes, behavioral processes, and verbal processes. Use temporal conjunctions, and temporal circumstances, use past tense.

4. Procedure Text

• Social Function : to describe how something is accomplished through a sequences of actions or steps.

• Generic Structure:

                       a. Goal

                       b. Material

                       c. Steps 1-n

• Significant lexicogrammatical features:

Use simple present tense, often imperative. use mainly material processes

5. Descriptive Text

• Social Function : to describe a particular person, places, or things

• Generic Structure:

                       a. Identification: identifies the phenomenon to be described

                       b. Description: describes parts, qualities, characteristics

• Significant lexico-grammatical features:

Focus on specific participants, use simple present tense.