Atikah Hidayati, 2201413012 (2020) TRANSITIVITY OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS WRITTEN BY THE TENTH-GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 1 SEMARANG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2016/2017. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Descriptive text is one of many text genres that are commonly written by an English as second language (ESL) students in Indonesia. This study analyzed the meaning realized in the descriptive texts that were produced by the students of the tenth grade using the theory of transitivity. The objectives of this study are to identify the Process, Participant, and Circmstance types found in the students‘ descriptive texts and to explain the implimentation of the transitivity analysis in the meaning realization of the descriptive texts referring to the lexicogrammatical features of the a descriptive text to achieve the purpose of the text. The participant of this study was 13 students of the tenth grade of SMA N 1 Semarang. The instrument was the descriptive texts written by the students. The students‘ descriptive texts were used as the source of the data collection. In analyzing the data, the theory of transitivity by Halliday‘s Systemic Functional Grammar was used. Based on the data analysis, it is found that the students mainly used the Relational and Material processes. Moreover, the process of Mental, Existential, and Verbal are also found in the texts. It is followed by the frequent occurrence of the participants of Relational and Material Processes, which are Token, Value, Carrier, Attribute, Actor, and Goal. This research found the frequent use of the Circumstance of Place and Time, besides the other circumstance types, in the descriptive texts. The findings are in line with the lexicogrammatical features of the descriptive texts formularized by Gerot and Wignell, as well as Knapp and Watkins. According to the result of the transitivity analysis, all the descriptive texts produced by the students were able to convey the meaning and purpose of the descriptive text, as well as to include the lexicogrammatical features of the descriptive text.

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