Recount Text

Recount Text

Recount text is a piece of text that retells past event(s) in the past.

·      Social function/Purpose

To amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways.

·      Generic structure

Orientation

Orientation gives the background information of the story. It gives detail of the participant and the setting (time and place).

Sequence of Event(s)

Event(s) is the main activities that occurred in the story. In recount text, event(s) is written in chronological sequence.

Re-orientation

Re-orientation is closing statement that may include elaboration. Some recount texts also have concluding paragraph. However this part is optional

·      Language Features

-            Proper noun to  identify those involved in the story

Ex: I, He, She

-            Descriptive word to give details about who, what, when, where and how.

-            The use of the pass tense to retell the events.

Ex: “I slept too late”, “I went home last night.”

-            Words that show order of events.

-            Ex: first, then, after that, etc.

·      Kinds of Recount Text

-          Personal Experience (My Holiday, My Birthday Party, My Graduation, etc.)

-          Historical Events (War, Independence Day, etc.)

-          Biography