AN ANALYSIS OF A STUDENT’S NARRATIVE TEXT WRITING FROM A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Narrative text is a text that is designed to entertain the readers. In the Indonesian educational
context, the students lack general exposure to how to make an effective narrative text. This study
is aimed at analyzing a student's narrative text. The study participant was a second-grade private
Islamic High School student in Semarang Regency. She was selected as the participant since her
writing showed her as a low achiever, which may portray the whole class's ability. Document
analysis was employed to obtain adequate information on the student's narrative writing viewed
from the SFL. The findings indicate that the student lacks grammar, ellipses in finite nominal
sentences, L1 interference with word order, and vocabulary mastery. Therefore, to minimize the
recurring problems, problem-based learning is one of the best approaches to teaching narrative
writing. It is used since it conveys various activities in which the students are motivated to write
and share their knowledge with others in collaborative learning. Thus, to implement problem
based learning into the teaching and learning process, the steps in teaching problem-based
learning should be blended into the genre-based approach.