Transitivity analysis of processes on batik junior high-school student’s narrative texts: Systemic functional linguistics approach

(Proses transitiviti dalam teks naratif oleh pelajar Sekolah Menengah Atas Batik: Satu analisis linguistik fungsian sistemik)

Abstract

This research focuses on the transitivity analysis of Batik JHS student’s narrative texts. Additionally, this research attempts to analyze whether the students follow the rules for constructing a narrative text. Apart from that, this research also involves an analysis of staging on the student’s narrative texts. The narrative texts used in this research are only those that have orientation, complication, evaluation, and resolution stages, so there are 10 texts in total with 142 data of transitivity. Thus, this research can see the order of the texts and the processes used for connecting one existence to another. This research is descriptive-qualitative research with systemic functional linguistics approach. The data come from the student’s narrative texts while the data themselves are the clauses from each stage of the text. This research uses domain, taxonomic, componential, and cultural theme analysis as what Spradley suggests. The findings show that the process which has the most processes is the complication stage. Also, the process that is exploited by Batik JHS students is a material process. Lastly, this research concludes that students use material processes to connect an existence to another existence in simple clauses. Finally, this research contributes to linguistics research that analyze the outcome of English language teaching in a junior high school.