The Transitivity System of Students’ Recount Text

The objectives of this study were to find out the elements of transitivity system
used in students’ recount text and to identify the elements of transitivity system
realized in students’ recount text. This study was conducted by using descriptive
qualitative design. The subject of this study was students’ writing of Recount text
from tenth grade of Social class tertiary school in Medan. The data were collected
by using documentary technique. Documentary involved the use of students’
writing of recount text. From the research, it was found in all units of students’
recount text there were 286 clauses. In these clauses, all process types can be
found with varieties of the usage, they were: Material process, Relational process,
Mental process, Verbal process, Existential process and behavioral process. For
the participant, almost all of the participants can be found in students recount text
except the Range, they were: Actor, Goal, Senser, Phenomenon, Token, Value,
Carrier, Attribute, Possessor, Possessed, Behaver, Sayer, Verbiage, Existent,
Beneficiary and Target. Related to the circumstance, there were seven
circumstances found in students’ recount text except Contingency and Angle, they
were: Extent, Location, Manner, Cause, Accompaniment, Role and Matter. The
realization of transitivity system were found with varieties of the usage in
constructing the language features of recount text. The processes were realized by
actions, activities, or doing something. While the participants were realized by
personal pronoun, direct and indirect object. And the circumstances were realized
by prepositional phrase and adverbial phrase.