RECOUNT TEXT

RECOUNT TEXT

Ø What is Recount Text?     

        Recount text is the text that used to retell past experience.

Ø  SOCIAL FUNCTION

        To retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.

TYPES OF RECOUNT

Ø Personal Recount

        Retelling of an activity that the speaker/writer has been personally involved

e.g Diary and Biography

        Factual Recount

        Recording the particulars of an accident

e.g News Report, Experience

        Imaginative Recount

        Talking of an imaginary role and giving details of event

e.g A day in the life of, experience

GENERIC STRUCTURE

¡  Orientation

        Provide the setting (when & where) and introduces participants/characters (who)

¡   Series of Events

        Tell what happened or events in temporal sequences

¡   Re-orientation

        Closure of events (e.g comments or conclution)

LANGUAGE FEATURES

v Focus on individual participants

v  Use of past tense

v Focus on a Temporal sequence of events

v Use of materials (or actions) clauses

EXAMPLE OF RECOUNT TEXT :

HOLIDAY IN USA

        Last summer I got a fantastic holiday. I visited some great places.

        I went  to an aiport and was going to fly to Cleveland. I was spending there two days.

        I liked to see some Cleveland Cavaliers basketball matches.

        Then I went to Hollywood. Hollywood is a famous district in Los Angeles, California, United States. It had become world-famous as the center of the film industry. Four major film companies-Paramount Warner Bros, RKO and Columbia-had studios in Hollywood. I did not want to leave but I had to.         After that, I went to New York City. I visited the Statue of Liberty. I went from the bottom of Manhattan to the top the crown. That was very amazing.

        The places made me feel at home but I have to go home. Next time I would return to them.