ANALYSIS USE OF ELEMENTS, STRUCTURE, AND TEXT LANGUAGE RULES IN 2013 CURRICULUM

Abstract

This research is motivated by the competencies that students must have in Indonesian language subjects, especially class VIII, namely understanding news texts, exposition texts, and poetry texts. In the 2013 curriculum, the material aims to enable students to convey their ideas and ideas logically and systematically in written form. This type of research is qualitative using descriptive method. The data in this study are excerpts of sentences or words contained in the students' texts, while the data sources used are the writings of these texts, students of class VIII SMP Pertiwi 2 Padang. The research instrument is the researcher himself and the data inventory format. The results of this study are summarized as follows.
First, specifically for news texts, which use elements of only thirty-one student texts, and only twenty-five student texts use the language rules of news texts. Second, for the exposition text, which uses the structure of the exposition text, there are only twenty-six student texts, and fifteen student texts that use linguistic rules. Third, for poetry texts, there are only twenty-two student texts that use language rules.