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    This document outlines an explanation text and provides suggestions for teaching it. It discusses the definition and types of explanation texts, including sequential, causal, theoretical, and consequential explanations. It describes the common structure and language features of explanation texts. These include using the present tense, complex noun groups, pronouns, action verbs, and connectives. The document also compares explanation texts to procedure texts and provides a genre-based approach for teaching explanations, with four stages of building knowledge, modeling, joint construction, and independent construction.

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    This document outlines an explanation text and provides suggestions for teaching it. It discusses the definition and types of explanation texts, including sequential, causal, theoretical, and consequential explanations. It describes the common structure and language features of explanation texts. These include using the present tense, complex noun groups, pronouns, action verbs, and connectives. The document also compares explanation texts to procedure texts and provides a genre-based approach for teaching explanations, with four stages of building knowledge, modeling, joint construction, and independent construction.

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    This document outlines an explanation text and provides suggestions for teaching it. It discusses the definition and types of explanation texts, including sequential, causal, theoretical, and consequential explanations. It describes the common structure and language features of explanation texts. These include using the present tense, complex noun groups, pronouns, action verbs, and connectives. The document also compares explanation texts to procedure texts and provides a genre-based approach for teaching explanations, with four stages of building knowledge, modeling, joint construction, and independent construction.

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    EXPLANATION TEXT

    By
    Nafiri Muhammadi

    TABLE OF CONTENT

    CHAPTER I : INTRODUCTION
    CHAPTER II : DISCUSSION
    CHAPTER III : CONCLUSION
    CHAPTER IV : TEACHING SUGGESTION

    CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION

    The writing process:


    1) Prewriting

    2) Planning (outlining)
    3) Writing and revising drafts

    4) Writing the final copy

    CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION

    Genres:
    1)

    Narration

    : Narrative, Recount, Spoof, News Item

    2)

    Description

    : Descriptive, Report, Procedure,

    Explanation,

    3)

    Argumentation

    : Exposition, Discussion, Review

    CHAPTER II: DISCUSSION

    Definition of Explanation Texts

    An explanation text is a non-fiction text;

    It describes a process, to explain the sequence, cause or theoretical


    understanding involved in the formation or working of a natural or
    socio cultural phenomenon or event.
    As a genre, explanations detail and logically describe the stages in a
    natural (e.g. the water cycle), social (e.g. making a law) or
    technological (e.g. how a car is made) phenomenon of our world.

    CHAPTER II: DISCUSSION


    Types of Explanation:
    1) Sequential
    It details the stages in an event. For example: from
    apple blossom to fruit, the life cycle of a frog, oil
    production, etc.
    2) Causal
    It details what causes the change from one stage to
    the next. For example: how digestion happens, why
    tsunamis occur, etc.

    CHAPTER II: DISCUSSION


    3) Theoretical
    It details the possible phenomena behind a
    natural/created process that is not fully understood.
    For example The El Nio effect.

    4) Factorial and Consequential


    It explain effects and outcomes of processes and
    are more commonly used in upper primary and
    secondary contexts. For example:
    Science e.g. explain the causes of climate change
    (Factorial)
    History e.g. explain the causes of World War 2
    (Factorial)

    CHAPTER II: DISCUSSION

    Structure of Explanation Texts:


    1)
    2)
    3)
    4)
    5)

    Title
    General Statement
    Sequenced Explanation
    Concluding Statement
    Labelled diagrams and flow charts

    CHAPTER II: DISCUSSION


    Language features:

    Use of present tense.


    Use of complex noun groups
    Use of abstract nouns
    Use of pronouns
    Usually the subject is not human
    Use of sentences that have a clear subject and verb agreement.
    Use of action verbs
    Use of adverbial phrases of time and place
    Use of connectives to link time sequences in a cause and effect
    sequence
    Use of passive voice
    Use of time conjunctions
    Use of technical terms or word chains about a subject

    CHAPTER IV: TEACHING


    SUGGESTION
    Differences between Procedure and Explanation Text:

    Procedure texts are describe how to do


    thing completely. (instructions)

    Explanation texts are explain how thing is


    done completely. (process)

    CHAPTER IV: TEACHING


    SUGGESTION
    Models of Genre-Based Approach

    GBA model used in Indonesia is a GBA model


    developed by Rothery which consists of four stages:
    1)
    2)
    3)
    4)

    Building Knowledge of the Field (BKOF)


    Modelling
    Joint Construction
    Independent Construction

    THE END

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