A TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS WRITING NARRATIVETEXT OF THE TENTH GRADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AT SMA 11 MARET DOLOK MASIHUL

Abstract

This research is an attempt to analyze transitivity in writing narrative text. Development of Grade 10 English Competency based on Halliday's systemic functional linguistic theory, and to find out the factors that influence the results of the analysis and the benefits that can be obtained. This research is expected to provide insight into understanding the text to improve linguistic competence. This study uses a qualitative descriptive technique to interpret each type of process. Data were collected from the results of students' narrative text writing. The researcher's knowledge of the transitivity system is the key instrument. As a complementary tool to the instrument, the form of a data sheet was used during the research analysis. Based on the results, there are six types of processes found; (1) material process found 50 frequency, (2) relational process found 16 frequency,(3) mental processes used 7 frequencies, (4) verbal processes 0 frequency because they did not use verbal processes, (5) behavioral processes found 1 frequency and (6) existential processes found 2 frequencies in the analysis. Curriculum factors affect the quality of results; curriculum conveys information to textbooks about vocabulary categorization. The source material factor affects the results quantitatively, because there are differences in the number of clauses between genres. The benefits that can be obtained are that genre transitivity can stimulate writing skills to understand ideas and information in a text, and content enriches knowledge of writing skills that can be applied in spoken and written texts.