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Tujuan Komunikatif Teks dalam Pelajaran Bahasa Inggris

TUJUAN KOMUNIKATIF TEKS
1.  ESSAY TEXTS
GENRE
PURPOSE
TYPE

NARRATIVE

To entertain the reader

OR

To provide entertainment and to make the audience think about an issue, teach them a lesson, or excite their emotions.

Short stories, Fables, Folk tales
Plays, Legends, Myths,
Ballads



REPORT

To present information about a person, thing or place

OR

To classify and/or describe using facts about the subject’s parts, behavior and qualities.

OR

To describe the way things are, with reference to a range of natural, manmade and social phenomena in our environment.


Reference articles, lecture, scientific articles, textbooks

RECOUNT

To tell events in the time order that have happened
  
OR

To retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.

OR
To provide the audience with a description of what occurred and when it occurred

OR

To retell one’s past experience.

Diaries, letters, journals, biographies, newspaper reports, historical recount, autobiographies, incident reports.


PROCEDURE

To give instructions about how to do something

OR

To explain how to do something, how to make something or how to get somewhere.

OR

To describe how something is accomplished through a sequence of actions or steps.

Recipes, instructional manuals, experiment reports, spoken directions

DESCRIPTIVE

To describe a particular person, place or thing

OR

To describe  about certain person, animal or thing (a living or non-living thing)

OR

To tell about the subject by describing its features without including personal opinions.


Certain thing, person, animal, or place  


2.  SHORT FUNCTIONAL TEXT
A functional text is a piece of writing that communicates something from an individual or group to another.

TYPES OF SHORT FUNCTIONAL TEXT
PURPOSE
    Caution
To remind
Depends on the text
   Greeting card
To congratulate …/To give warm wishes
   Short message
To inform/to invite/to ask for apology, ect.
Depends on the text
   Invitation
To invite …./To ask someone to come..
   Announcement
To announce …/to make known...
   Label
To inform …
   Advertisement
To promote, to advertise…
   Letter
Depends on the text


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