• Maria Arina Luardini

  Author

• Natalina Asi

  Author

This article is intended to describe the linguistic competence in writing arrative
text by junior high school English teachers in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan (CK),
of the Republic of Indonesia.
The handwrite-narrative texts of Cinderella were collected as data from four English
teachers at for private junior high schools in Palangka Raya. The analysis was done by
applying Genre-Based Approach of Functional-Systemic Linguistics in order to
describe the language used.
The results showed that the teacher texts were mostly constructed in simple sentences,
with the average clause density of 1.6 each sentence. The types of processes were
dominated by material, relational, and mental processes which were supported by
temporal circumstances. Topical and textual theme indicated that the texts were
organized as a narration. Although there were some mistakes in using the rules of
tenses, overgeneralization, missing some parts of clause elements, the texts still fulfilled
the minimal criteria of a narrative text. The majority had the basic generic structure
levels consisting of: orientation˄ complication˄ resolution.

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