Recount is a text that retells past events or experiences to inform or entertain the audience. It generally has an orientation introducing participants and setting, a series of events described in chronological order using simple past tense, and an optional reorientation with the writer's personal comment. Key language features include use of pronouns like "I" and "my", chronological connectors like "then" and "first", linking verbs, and action verbs. While recounts and narratives both tell past stories chronologically using past tense, narratives focus more on conflicts between participants.

1. RECOUNT TEXT

2. Definition of Recount
• Recount is a text which retells events or
experiences in the past. Its purpose is either
to inform or to entertain the audience.

3. Generic Structure of Recount
• 1. Orientation: Introducing the participants,
place and time
2. Events: Describing series of event that
happened in the past
3. Reorientation: It is optional. Stating
personal comment of the writer to the
story

4. Language Feature of Recount
• • Introducing personal participant; I, my
group, etc
• Using chronological connection; then, first,
etc
• Using linking verb; was, were, saw, heard,
etc
• Using action verb; look, go, change, etc
• Using simple past tense

5. differentiates from narrative
• the structure in which they are construct
differentiates
• Narrative uses conflicts among the participants:
• whether natural conflict, social conflict or
psychological conflict
• we do not find these conflicts inside recount text.
Recount applies series of event as the basic
structure

6. THE SIMILAR WITH NARATIVE
• Both are telling something in the past so
narrative and recount usually apply PAST
TENSE; whether Simple Past Tense, Simple
Past Continuous Tense, or Past Perfect Tense.
The ways narrative and recount told are in
chronological order using time or place.