TRANSITIVITY SYSTEMS ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH FOR SMK 1 TEXTBOOK FOR GRADE X

This research deals with transitivity systems analysis of English for Vocational
High School (SMK) of Sosorgadong Textbook for Grade X and its relevance to
English language teaching. The thesis uses systemic functional linguistics
(Halliday, 2004) as the main theoretical framework, following the top-down
approach to analysis. There are two research problems proposed in this research,
i.e. (1)What are the transitivity systems (Process, Participants, and Circumstances)
types that characterize English for SMK 1 Textbook for Grade X?, and (2) How
are these systems used each selected text? How do they differ? By using the
theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), it can be described (as
qualitative descriptive method of research), that in all Units of reading texts in the
English textbook there were 23 clauses selected methodologically to be analyzed.
In these clauses, all process types can be found with varieties of the usage. It is
found that in all units of reading texts, material process types was the dominant
type used, i.e. (48.6%), followed by relational process type (27,2%), mental
process (18.6%) verbal process type 8,4%, and behavioral and existentional 7.0%
each respectively. Related to the circumstance, the dominant one is circumstance
of location (time and place = 37.7%). For the participant, it is related to the
process exists in the text, i.e. Actor for participant 1 and goal for paticipant 2.
Research problem two deals with the results of the research that have relevance
with the English teaching and learning processes. Systemic linguists do not
separate language and society. Language is realized through text; this implies that
texts do not have intrinsic meanings since meaning emerges according to the way
texts are used in social contexts. The language chosen to express a particular
meaning determines the way in which that meaning is perceived. As a result, the
roles of clause where it consists of transitivity system and as the most complete
language unit determine meaning expressed to the receiver