ABSTRACT
Sanjaya, Abdillah.
2012. Teaching
functional text to improve student ability in grammar in junior high school. Paper. English Department Faculty
of Teacher Training and Educational Sciences Muhammadiyah University of
Purworejo. Consultant,
Titi Rokhayati, M.Pd
This study is about the teaching functional text in
junior high school. The writer's reasons in choosing that topic are that the
writer has great interest in functional text and student difficulty in learning
grammar.
Functional
text is used for everyday information. It is called functional because it helps
you function in your day-to-day life. For example, if we wanted to make chocolate chip cookies, we would read a recipe. If we
wanted to know our friend's phone number, we would look in a phone book. If our English teacher gave a test, we
would need to read the directions. There are some kinds of functional text among of
them, announcement, invitation, recipe, food label, schedule etc. Here
the writer will explain how to teach functional text to improve student ability
in grammar. Grammar is relatively said as a difficult task for the student.
This
paper entitles teaching functional text to improve
student ability in grammar.
The writer will
give an explanation on how to improve student ability in grammar through
functional text. By using the grammatical pattern of functional text, such as,
announcement, recipe, invitation card and so on, the writer here, hopes that
student can easily understand sentence structure such as simple present and
simple future tense. This paper shows an elaboration on how functional text is
useful to teach grammar. Here, the writer also writes and explains the step
completely.