THE TEXTUAL FUNCTION OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS

Abstract

This study is present a research on textual function, where the theme and rheme are structered and the information structure in descriptive paragraph in English textbooks, which was conducted, is qualitative design in this case using the theories to analyze the theme and rheme. And also in quantitative design in case of calculating the percentage of unmarked and marked theme, simple and multiple theme, given and new information. The sources of data were taken from the reading english textbook of New Let’s Talk. They were taken 7 texts as the sample of descriptive text. The data analysis of the theme and rheme structured in descriptive English textbooks were occurs in Unmarked and Simple theme. From seven texts there were Unmarked theme 65 (56, 25%), Marked theme is 50 (49,25%), Simple theme is 98 (85, 21%), Multiple theme is 17 (14, 78%). Given Information is 56 (65, 25%), New Information is 50 (49, 48%). It was found that Unmarked, Simple themes, and Given information was dominant used in English textbooks of New Let’s Talk