ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION

Learning English is Very Important for Life

Why is learning English very important for life? Language is the instrument of communication. Mostly groups of society have their own languages. Most people in the world hear about English, Arabic, and Mandarin. However English is the most global spoken language. Then if the people want go to abroad, they have to master English.

Everyone to realize that English is an international language. English is used in writing and speaking by many people all over the world. It can be either as a first or second language. We even hear British, American, Australian, and even Singaporean use English as the first language in their countries. Futhermore, some countries have their own languages as a mother language but also use English mostly in daily comunication.

Besides usage in daily interaction, English is also used as a key to open doors leading to scientific and technical knowledge. No wonder if we find guides and instructions of many devices written in English.

Finaly, the most easily seen in the importance of learning English is that most top requirement in filling job opportunities is the ability using English; active or passive. Job applicants who master English are more favourable than who can not speak English. The  facts above prove that everybody needs to learn English if he likes to greet the global era.

NARRATIVE TEXT

To the effect of Narrative text is subject to be comfort, to tell one story or to give aesthetics experience art. Narrative text to be gone upon on life experience and person that gets to orient utilize dialogue language and familiarly.       
narrative text gets business with incident troublesome causative crisis or a turning point of some types (tag line), one that in turn finds rev. Someone tells narrative text in order to comfort, stimulating emotion or to teach. One narrative text to be utilized simple past tense.

One narrative text to be evened out by use of story structure. Gnostic grammatical about how story that evened out by early story which contains arrangement, character, and character problem. Narrative text mean or staffed by plot vicinity. Plot ranges one series of episode that wrote by writer to noise about us and build joy as story happen.

Instances meaty plot early, event that begun by main character instead of one series of event to solve problem. One series of event whereabouts effort main character to solve problem. Joy builds until climax; supreme dot in story whereabouts this problem is solved.

Ø  To the effect of narrative text:

ØTo comfort or comforting

ØTo settle current experience with different way

Ø Organizational text:

Ø Orientation
Introducing story character, time and story place happens (who / what, when, and whereabouts)

Ø Complication
One series an instance where effort main character to solve problem

Ø Resolution
A stop to story contain problem solution

Ø Feature grammatical:

Ø  In focus participant which specific and usually individual

Ø Purpose processes significant, behavioral process and verbal

Ø Purpose with temporal and earthly concern situation

Ø Bygone purpose

Ø type:

Ø Radish

Ø Folklore

Ø  Fancy

Ø Story

Ø Factious history

Ø Mystery, Factious science, Realistic fiction

Ø  Myth

Ø Legend

Ø Fabel

For example:

Cinderella

Once upon a time there was a beautiful girl called Cinderella. She lived with her stepsister and stepmother. They were very bossy. She had to do all the homework.

            One day an invitation to the party came to the family. Her stepsister did not let her go, so Cinderella was very sad. The stepsister went to the party without her.

            Fortunately, the fairy good mother came and helped her get to the party. At the party, Cinderella danced with the prince. The prince fell in love with her then he married her. They lived happily ever after.

Teaching EFL Learners to Write an Argumentative Essay By Adopting Genre Literacy Approach

Teaching EFL learners to write an argumentative essay is not just a mater of teaching them to generate ideas, to used correct language to express meanings, choose suitable technical terms, to organize ideas in a coherent way, and to employ written conventions of mechanics, but also, most importantly, to develop their critical thinking skills. The  argumentative essay has  distinct purpose: To connive or persuade. The meaning that case is to make the audience (readers) agree to a point a view of the author with logical reasoning to support the point a view.

Skills in argumentation has been considered as one of critical thinking skills and argumentative writing is challenge to apply the skills. An argument happens, when two parties disagree about something. One party give an opinion the reasons to s support it and the other party gives a different opinion and offers reasons in supports of the argument.

An argument is not merely, or the same as an opinion , agreement or disagreement but it is the author’s point of view directed to persuade the audience to accept. It is important to note that an effective argument needs logical reasoning that might be done by providing evidence such as fact, statistical evidence, and scientific explanation. Therefor an opinion without and explicit support of logical reasons is not argument but just an opinion.

Summarizes 6 features of an argument:

1)    Position

Position refers to a point of view that the author attempts to persuade the audience to accept.

2)    Reasons

Reason is meaning giving logical reasons that refer to contributing argument to support the position.

3)    A line of reasoning

A line of reasoning means a set of reasons presented in a logical order so that it leads clearly and logically from one reason to the next.

4)    Conclusion

The conclusion which refers to the argument that leads towards the position that the author wants the audience to accept. The conclusion is basically the persuasion to a point of view from the author to the audience.

5)    Persuasion

Persuasion is the purpose of the argument to convince the audience about the point of view.

6)    Signal words and phrase

Signal words and phrase, help the audience follow the detection of the argument smoothly.

Smalley and Ruetten mention the characteristics of an argumentative essay as follows:

1)       The argumentative essay should introduce and explain the issue.   This is important to make the audience understand the issue being argued.

2)       The essay should offer reasons and support for those reasons which means that the essay should prove its points.

3)       The essay should refute the opposing argument. The purpose is that the author not only proves his/her care but also prover that the opponent is wrong.

Basically ideas on the features of an argumentative essay can be simplified into 4 basic component:

1)          Introduction and explanation of issues including the thesis of the author  containing the position (stand).

2)            Reasons presented logically to support the argument.

3)            Refutation which means to prove that the opponents are wrong.

4)             Conclusion containing reassertion of the thesis.