Suwarni Kusumowatie, 2201415169 (2019) THE IDEATIONAL MEANING OF INSTRUCTIONS IN THE EXERCISES OF AN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK BAHASA INGGRIS. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

A textbook always consists of instructions that provide the users with directions on what they supposed to do. This study focused on describing the transitivity of the instructions found in the English Textbook Bahasa Inggris. Transitivity patterns in the text can explain how the field of the situation is being constructed (Eggins, 2004). The analysis used Systemic Functional Linguistic by Halliday (2014) as the main theoretical framework. One of the three categories in SFL, ideational metafunction, is realized by transitivity structures. In the textbook, there is some sets of language instruction that consists of instruction clauses (simple or complexes) and directions. Instructions are associated with teaching and given to teach somebody something. Direction itself is in the form of guidelines and it is mainly utilized while guiding somebody into a particular direction. In conducting the study, I used a qualitative descriptive approach. The object of this study is the instructional clauses in the exercises of English Textbook Bahasa Inggris. In analyzing the data, I listed the sentences of the instruction part, then segmented them into a single clause. Afterward, analyzed them through transitivity systems. Then, drew the conclusion and arranged the report based on the findings. This research found out six process types; Material (67.5%), Mental (2.4%), Verbal (4.1%), Behavioral (0.8%), Existential (3.2%), and Relational process (21.9%). Material process is the most dominant. The circumstances found in the instructional clauses are role (5.2%), time (2.6%), place (45.4%), manner (9.1%), accompaniment (18.2%), matter (10.4%), and cause (9.1%). Circumstance that appears the most is Place. From the findings, it can be concluded that the dominant participant found must belong to the dominant process. From the most dominant circumstance, it implies that the textbook instructions, especially in the exercises, should be very clear on the location or place section in which students do the exercises. The English textbook instruction is a procedure consisting of concrete steps which means that it provides direction to the students. It is approved by the existential process found in the direction sentence. Furthermore, the existential processes are found in the direction sentences. Therefore, transitivity is useful for helping us to understand the instructions better.

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