Teachers' Difficulties and Strategies in Developing Narrative Texts as Learning Materials for Young Adolescent Regarding Theme System

摘要

This study entitled Teachers' Difficulties and Strategies in Developing Narrative Texts as Learning Materials for Young Adolescent aims to, 1) find out how the English teachers developed Narrative texts regarding to Theme system; 2) identify what difficulties faced by the teacher in developing the texts; 3) discover strategies to overcome his difficulties. A descriptive qualitative method was employed as a research design focusing on a case study since one English teacher of young adolescent was recruited as the participant in this research. Data were collected through document analysis in the form of Narrative texts composed by the teacher and interview with the teacher. The collected data were analyzed based on Systemic Functional Linguistics to find out the Theme and Thematic progression patterns of the text. Meanwhile, the result of the interview was interpreted referring to the information about teacher's language awareness which influenced pedagogy. Based on the findings from document analysis, it revealed that the texts already fulfilled the Theme system which was indicated from the Theme choices and Thematic progression patterns. However, some difficulties were found due to teacher's lack of knowledge about Theme system analysis. Therefore, the teacher learned to understand well Theme system analysis to overcome the difficulties.