Ppg: Learning Activity Goal: Report Text
LEARNING ACTIVITY 1: REPORTS
Welcome to Learning Activity 1
In Learning Activity 1, we will be learning report texts on jobs. Report text on jobs is usually posted on job search websites. These texts are made available to public to inform readers/viewers about the name of profession, the tasks they have to do to perform the job, requirements or qualifications to fit the position, and the benefits people will get if they choose career on a particular job.
In this activity, you will also learn how to analyze some report texts on jobs and construct report texts to do with jobs. First, you will be exposed to some examples of report texts on jobs . From the examples, you will analyze the elements that make up report texts on jobs and see how different structures are employed to meet certain purposes from the texts. You will also learn the language to describe jobs and work places to help you construct the report texts. Finally, you will gradually be guided to write report texts to do with jobs.
Below is the outline of the learning outcomes in Learning Activity 1.
Learning Outcome
In Learning Activity 1 you will learn the following competencies:
Attitude
To uphold and apply religious values, adab values, ethical values, personal and social values (honesty, discipline, accountability, independence), care and respect for differences and diversity, tolerance, peace, collaboration, and nationalism.
Knowledge
To analyze the social functions, text structures, and lexicogrammatical features of report texts in regard to the contexts of situation.
Skills
- To read report texts meaningfully.
- To compare the social functions of report texts.
- To compare the text structure of report texts.
- To compare the lexicogrammatical features of report texts.
- To construct some report texts related to jobs.
Unit Learning Outcomes
- To read a number of report texts meaningfully.
- To compare the social functions of a number of report texts regarding the context of situation, the sasaran readers, the points of interests or importance.
- To compare the structure of each of the report texts, including general classification summarized in the first paragraph, and detail descriptions in the following paragraphs.
- To compare the lexicogrammatical features of report texts by determining the choice of words and expressions, the use of direct and indirect sentences, the tenses, the fonts, the punctuation marks, etc.
- To construct report text on jobs according to their context of situation, social function, text structure, and lexico-grammatical features.
Learning Materials
Learning materials in this activity will be divided into two main sections; Key Features of The Text and Meaning Making Task. Study them carefully and do each of the tasks that follows.
Key Features of Report Texts
Social Function
To describe the way things are, with a reference of a range of natural, man-made, and social phenomena in our environment.
To describe the way things are, with a reference of a range of natural, man-made, and social phenomena in our environment.
Generic Structure
- General Classification: tells what the phenomenon under discussion is.
- Description: tells what the phenomenon under discussion is like in terms of:
- Parts (and their functions)
- Qualities
- Habits or behaviors, if living; uses, if non-natural
Significant Lexicogrammatical Features
- Focus on generic participants
- Use of relational processes to state what is and that which it is
- Use of simple present tense (unless extinct)
- No temporal sequence
(Gerot, L., & Wignell, P. (1994). Making sense of functional grammar.
Meaning Making Tasks
This section is divided into two parts. The first part, Getting to Know Report Texts, includes a number of Tasks in which you will be guided to analyze
(1) the social functions,
(2) the text structures, and
(3) the lexicogrammatical features of report texts from three different contexts of situation.
The second part, Constructing Report Texts. In this part you will write some report texts to address the social functions, the text structures, and the lexicogrammatical features.