RECOUNT TEXT

Recount text is a text that is used to retell the readers what happened in the past through a sequence of events.
Social Function : To retell past event for the purpose of informing or entertaining.

GENERIC STRUCTURE
 ORIENTATION
It’s about who was involved, what happened, where this event took place and when it happened.

 EVENT (S)
It’s about what happened in chronological order.

 RE-ORIENTATION
The conclusion of the experience.

SIGNIFICANT GRAMMAR FEATURES

 Focuses on individual participants.
 Use of material process.
 Circumstances of theme and places.
 Use of the past tense.
LANGUAGE FEATURES
 Use of past tenses
(Ex: went, spent, played)
 Use of time conjunctions
(Ex: and, but, after, then)
 Use of adverbs of time in the past
(Ex: yesterday, last week, two days ago)
 Use of personal pronoun
(Ex: I, we)