LEXICOGRAMMATICAL FEATURES IN TEXT TYPE IN TEXTBOOK “LET’S TALK” FOR NINTH GRADE STUDENTS
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- The purpose of English language teaching is to develop the students’ ability to communicate in spoken and written. But many students still get difficulties to understand English in written. Because in written not only grammatically must be correct but also the organization of text must relevant. Every text has text type or genre. Student of junior high school also learn about genres, while if want to know the kind of genres one of the way is the students must know the lexicogrammatical features. Tenses and process type is part of lexicogrammatical features. Mostly students of junior high school still get error in tenses and not familiar with process type. They needs more information about it. Because many textbooks as their refferences just give little explanation about it. The objective of this is to describe how tenses and process types of lexicogrammatical features are used in text type in textbook “Let’s Talk” for ninth grade students. Descriptive qualitative research is used as the design of research to reach the objectives of this research. The data of this research is the tenses and process types. Meanwhile, the data source of this research is found in textbook “Let’s Talk” for ninth grade students. The findings showed that the tenses used in 10 text types in textbook “Let’s Talk” for ninth grade students are relevant to the characteristic of its text type. In this research, the writer just found six processes type in written text in textbook “Let’s Talk” for ninth grade students. They are material processes, mental processes, verbal processes, behavioural processes, relational processes, and existential processes. The writer did not find meteorological processes. Because in text types in textbook “Let’s Talk” for ninth grade students there is no process of weather, clime, or clock. Based on the finding, the writer concludes that 10 texts in textbook “Let’s Talk” for ninth grade students are relevant to its characteristics. Some recommendations are proposed to English teacher should select the most appropriate textbook for the student because many books are presented without considering good structure in the text. Furthermore, for the next researchers this research can give contribution to inform other researcher who want to conduct about the same field.