RECOUNT TEXT

1.     Definition

Recount text is a text that tells about a story, action, experience or event that occurred in the past. Based on the purposes t can be in the form of a personal, factual, or imaginative recount.

Personal recount has a function to tell personal story or experience of the author. Factual recount is aimed to present the factual events such as the police report or science experiment report. Imaginative recount is used to tell imaginative story that has been occurred in the past.

2.     Social Function

The purpose of recount text is to explain past experiences by retelling events in chronological order to inform or entertain the readers

3.     Generic Structure

a.     Orientation

Introducing the information of who, when, and where the events occurred in the past. In this part, you should provide the readers with all information needed to understand the text

b.     Events

Telling the readers about the experiences or events happened. In this part, you have to write the events in chronological order using signal phrases.

c.     Re- orientation

Repeating the first part of recount text by summarising all information and events that have been told in the previous parts. In this part, you are able to add your commentaries and personal opinion towards the event.

4.     Language Features

a.     Using past tense, e.g., went, would, provided, estimated

b.     Using adverb and adverbial phrase to tell the time, place, and method, e.g., last night, last day, last June, in the jungle, first of all, in Kudus, on the first day.

c.     Using conjunction and time connectives to put the events on the right order or indicate sequence properly, e.g., after, before, and, after that, then.

d.     Focus on the specific participant(s) or character(s) being told in the text.

5.     Example

Generic Structure	Recount Text
Title	My Holiday in Seoul
Orientation	I spent my last summer holiday in Seoul, South Korea. I went there with my friends.
Event 1	On the first day, I was landed at Incheon Airport around 7 AM after a 6 hours-long flight. Then I went to Seoul by train and checked in to the hotel I already booked. I decided to take a rest for a while.
Event 2	At night, I went to Hongdae, a famous district in South Korea. I went to eat traditional Korean food.
Event 3	On the next day, I went to the Gyeongbokgung Palace and National Museum. I also went to learn how to make Kimchi and see the scenery of Seoul from Seoul Tower. I went back to the hotel at 10 PM and immediately went to sleep.
Reorientation	I spent my last day in Myeongdong and bought some stuffs and souvenirs for my family and friends. I also ate the street food there. I went to the airport at 3 PM because my flight was at 5 PM. I had a fantastic experience in South Korea and made wonderful memory with my friends. It was a great trip

·      Past Tense

·      Adverb and Adverbial Phrase

·      Conjunction and Time Connectives

·      Specif Participants (s) or Character (s) 

6.     Vocabulary

No	words	Definition	Meaning
1	Holiday [n]	an official day when you do not have to go to work or school	liburan
2	Decide [v]	to choose something, especially after thinking carefully about several possibilities	menentukan
3	Check-in [v]	the act of recording your arrival at a hotel or at an airport when you are going to travel	mendaftar
4	Already [adv]	earlier than the time expected	telah
5	Famous [adj]	known and recognised by many people	terkenal
6	District [n]	one of the areas into which a country, state, city, etc. is divided, usually for government or business purposes	daerah
7	Scenery [n]	the general appearance of the natural environment, especially when it is beautiful	pemandangan
8	Immediately [adv]	Now or without waiting or thinking	dengan seketika
9	Stuffs [n]	things that someone says or does, when you are referring to them in a general way without saying exactly what they are	barang-barang
10	Memory [n]	Something that you remember from the past	ingatan