Abstract:
This research was conducted to find out of the sources of Attitude as parts of
Appraisal through language use in students’ writing recount text and to classify
the words into the system of Attitude sources such as affect, judgement and
appreciation in students’ writing that has been classified into positive and negative
language. It was also conducted by applying descriptive qualitative research. The
source of the data in this research was taken from students of grade VIII in SMP
Bina Satria Mulia. The data were analyzed by using descriptive data. It was found
that 60% in affect, 29% in judgement and 11% in appreciation which showed that
the affect was more appeared to express the thought of students than other type
through writing. Positive language for each kinds of Attitude was more dominant
than negative language of language use in students’ writing
