Experience
The generic structure of Recount text
Orientation, Events, Re-orientation
S+V2
Simple Past Tense
On Sunday
temporal sequence
A series of events, ordered in a chronological sequence.
Writer’s experience
Personal recount
It gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text, such as who was involved, where it happened, and when it happened.
Orientation
Past Continuous tense
S + was / were + Ving
Last week, my friends and I went to Jogja. We visited many places.
Orientation
Temporal Sequence
On Saturday. On Monday, On Sunday
Experience based on Fact
Factual Recount
Definition of Recount Text
a text which retells event or experiences in the past.
Then
Conjunction
Imaginative Recount
To retell the imajinative story based on writer’s dream
Social Function
Conjunction
then, before, after, etc
Re-Orientation
A personal comment about the event or what happened in the end.
Stayed
Events
A series of events, ordered in a chronological sequence.
Action Verb
Went
How many types of recount text based on the PowerPoint?
To entertaining or informing the reader
Social Function
Recount Text Example
Past Experience
I or I'm or Iam
specific participant
Orientation
It gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text, such as who was involved, where it happened, and when it happened.
How many Language features on this text?
5