A Study of Appraisal Attitude Use in Students’ Writing Recount Text

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