ANALYSIS OF THEME AND RHEME IN OPINION AND IDEA OF ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXTS WRITTEN BY THE ELEVENTH GRADERS OF SMA N 4 MAGELANG IN THE SCHOOL YEAR OF 2018/2019
Abstract
One of the important skills to be mastered by the students in learning English is writing skill because it is used to construct an academic text. However, most of the students have difficulties in writing process that will cause them do not produce texts as it should be. The term of textual meaning refers to theme and rheme. Theme and rheme can be used to make a well-organized paragraph in writing.
The objectives of this research are to find out the realization of theme and rheme and the types of theme in opinion and idea of analytical exposition texts written by the eleventh graders of SMA N 4 Magelang in the school year of 2018/2019. The subject of this research is the students of XI Science 4 grade of SMA N 4 Magelang in the school year 2018/2019.
The type of this research is descriptive qualitative, it allows the writer to make a personal assessment in form of descriptive text. Based on Gerot and Wignell’s theory (1994), there are three types of theme. They are topical theme that consists of marked and unmarked topical theme, then interpersonal theme, and textual theme. The result shows that marked topical theme has the lowest percentage, it is 2.47%. The first mostly applied theme is unmarked topical theme that has 50%. Textual theme has second range that is 38.27%. The last is interpersonal theme, showing the judgment of person, has 9.26% out of 100% percentage of theme.
Keywords
Full Text:
PDFReferences
Adawiyah, R. (2017). An analysis of theme and rheme organization on academic essay written by the fifth semester students of uin raden fatah palembang. A paper. UIN Raden Fatah. Palembang.
Arunsirot, S. (2013). An analysis of textual metafunction in thai efl students’ writing. Research on Youth and Language Journal, 7(2), 160-174.
Brown, H. D. (2003). Language assessment principles and classroom practices. NY: Pearson Education, Inc.
Creswell, J. (2012). Educational research: Planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. (4th ed.). Boston: Pearson.
Gerot, L. and Wignell, P. (1994). Making sense of functional grammar. Sydney: Gerd Stabler.
Halimah, N. (2018). Analysis of theme and rheme of the texts written by the fifth graders of smk bandar sungai buaya malaysia in the year 2017. A Paper. Tidar University. Magelang.
Halliday, M. A. K. (1994). An introduction to functional grammar. (2nd ed). London: Edward Arnold.
Halliday, M. A. K. and Matthiessen, C. (2004). An introduction to functional grammar. (3rd ed). London, England: Hodder Arnold.
Halliday, M. A. K. and Matthiessen, C. (2014). Halliday’s introduction to functional grammar. (4th ed). Oxon, OX: Routledge.
Hogue, A., and Oshima, A. (2007). Introduction to academic writing. (3rd ed). NY : Pearson Education, Inc.
Kartini, Y. and Farikah. (2015). Analysis of theme of the analysis exposition text written by the third semester students of english department of tidar university. International Journal of English and Education, 4(3), 2278-4012. Tidar University. Magelang.
Richards, J. C. (2015). Key issues in language teaching. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Wang, L. (2007). Theme and rheme in the thematic organization of text: Implication for teaching academic writing. Asian ELF Journal, 9(1).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31002/jrlt.v2i1.422
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
Copyright (c) 2019 Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language, and Language Teaching
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.