AN ANALYSIS OF PARATAXIS AND HYPOTAXIS CONSTRUCTION IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITTEN BY FIRST GRADERS OF SMK BANDAR SUNGAI BUAYA MALAYSIA IN THE YEAR 2017

Abstract

Writing skill in Malaysia is one of the language learning objectives which has to be mastered by the students. It is challenge as it is evolving to meet the needs and demands in globalized world. In writing, students are expected to be able to make good construction of paragraph. The problems arise in Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Bandar Sungai Buaya Malaysia that the students are still get difficulty in arranging good quality of writing, especially in term of clause development. The good quality of writing are influenced by interdependency (taxis) and logico-semantic relation system between the clauses. The objectives of this research are to find out the types of taxis and logico-semantic relation in students’ descriptive text. Besides, it also identifies the types of taxis and logico-semantic relation which are dominantly used by Malaysian first grade students of SMK Bandar Sungai Buaya Malaysia following by Gerot and Wignell’s theory (1994). This research belongs to descriptive qualitative research, since the date are provided descriptively. The products that have been analyzed are 17 descriptive texts written by 17 students of 1 Muzik class in SMK Bandar Sungai Buaya Malaysia. Furthermore, the technique of collecting data is done through documentation technique. The result shows that the student descriptive texts consist of 380 clauses which 188 of those are simple sentence, fragments and the rest is clause complexes.