A Systemic Functional Linguistics-based Analysis of Students’ Problems in Writing Exposition Text

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10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.241How to use a DOI?

Keywords

exposition writing; metafunction; Systemic Functional Linguistics; writing problem

Abstract

Among various texts taught in secondary schools, exposition text is considered one of the most challenging texts to be learned by students. Informed by Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, this study seeks to investigate what problems encountered by students in writing exposition. To achieve that, a sample of students’ writing therefore was purposively taken to be analyzed using SFL Framework. The results of the analysis identified several challenges encountered by students in writing exposition text including the use of impersonal pronoun to create more objective feeling and attitude toward the issue being discussed and the use of proper structure to show plurality. In term of textual metafunction analysis, the challenges are in the form of the use of proper conjunctions (including internal and causal conjunction) to create strong connections between clause and the proper organization of Theme-Rheme in thematic progression.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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