TRANSITIVITY SYSTEMS ANALYSIS OF BILINGUAL CIVIC 3 EDUCATION TEXTBOOK FOR GRADE XII

This thesis deals withis transitivity system analysis on Bilingual Civic 3 Education For Grade XII. There are two research questions that should be answered, i.e. about (1) transitivity systems (process, participant, and circumstance) that are dominantly used in texts; and (2) the reasons of the transitivity systems realized in textbooks. To answer these questions, the analysis employed Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday, 2004) and utilizes the framework of transitivity analysis, which identifies ideational meanings realized by grammatical choices. In this research, the writer used the descriptive qualitative method to study the problems. In analyzing the data, the researcher used the following steps, first, reading the textbook, second, segmenting the data in form of clauses, third, identifying the types of processes, participants and circumstances, fourth, classifying the clauses into categories and drawing conclusions from the analysis. There were 160 clauses altogether as the data. From the data, three process types that occupied mostly in the text, i.e. (1) Mat.Pr, (2) Rel. Int.Att., and (3) Verb Pr. The dominant process types used in the text, i.e..,Mat.Pr. i.e. 106 (48.18%). While the rests two, i.e 60 clauses (27.27%) were categorized as Rel. (Int.Attr.) and 42 (19.0%) clauses were categorized as Verb Pr.. Usually, there are two primary participants involved in certain processes, namely Actors and Goal in material, Senser and Phenomenon in mental, Carrier/ Ident. and Attr./Ident. in relational, Sayer and Receiver in verbal process, except Existent in existential and Behaver in behavioral process. The textbook was also constructed by the domination of Location (both Location of Time and Place), i.e. 36.5% and the second place in numbers was Cir.Acc. to show the place where the action took place with detailed attached information realized by Cir.Acc. The writers of the textbook focused on the actor to show the efforts made by people involved in the text and the events happened or took place. These two transitivity elements were supposed to be important since the text discussed about the history of a country