Abstract

Abstract: This research concerned transitivity in reading text for senior high school. The purposes of this research were to describe and to find out the dominant process types of transitivity occurred in the reading text. This research was descriptive qualitative. The data was obtained from reading text in English textbook entitled Pathway to English. The result of the research were six types of process that occurred in the textbook. There were material process (38%), relational process (30%), verbal process (20%), mental process (19%), behavioural process (4%), and existential process (2%). The dominant types of transitivity was material process. It means that reading passage in English textbook entitled Pathway to English contained action and physicaly. Futhermore, the benefit that can be gained from analyzing the transitivity in the text could stimulate the reading skills to comprehend the idea and information in a text that could be applied in spoken and written texts.

Highlights

  • Implementation of the Curriculum 2013 in teaching English needed to consider an English textbook

  • AND DISCUSSION Findings The researcher collected the data to answer the research questions “What are the process type of transitivity used in the text of textbook for second grade of senior high school?” and “What is the dominant process type of transitivity in the text of textbook for second grade of senior high school?” The researcher used the documentation checklist as the instrument

  • The process types were classified into material process, mental process, relational process, behavioural process, verbal process, and existential process

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Introduction

Implementation of the Curriculum 2013 in teaching English needed to consider an English textbook. A textbook was a book that contained several learning materials to support the learning and teaching process in the classroom. According to Masnur (2016), textbook was the book contains the material about specific subject of study that was arranged systematically and have been selected based on specific objectives, learning orientation and students development. Klemencic and Vogrincic (2014) said that textbooks were core of learning materials or documents within the field of education both in printed and in electronic form. It means that textbook was a media as learning tools which consisted of material that relevant topic or content to supporting the teaching and learning process in the classroom

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