LEARNING ACTIVITY 3: PROCEDURE TEXT

LEARNING ACTIVITY 3: PROCEDURES

Welcome to Learning Activity 3

In Learning Activity 3, you will learn procedural texts. Procedure text is a text which describes how something is achieved through a sequence of actions or steps. It explains how people perform different processes in a sequence of steps. Procedures may be spoken, written or visual. These may involve physical activity, mental thought or emotional behaviour. There are different types of procedure texts serving different purposes. Procedures can instruct how to do a particular activity or help people  teaching  appropriate behaviour. Procedure normally takes the form of directions or instructions.

In this learning activity, you learn how to give instructions effectively through procedure texts. To do so, firstly, you will be exposed to some examples of procedure texts and analize the parts of each of the procedure text. You will learn how different structures in procedure texts are present to meet their social purposes. Special discussion on infinitive complement will help you write tips or warning that might be usefull when you write procedure texts

Learning outcomes of Learning Activity 3 are set out below.

Learning Outcomes

In this activity you will be learning the following competencies:

Attitude

To uphold and apply religous values, moral values, ethical values, personal and social values (honesty, discipline, accountability, independence), care and respect for differences and diversity, tolerance, peace, collaboration, and nationalism

Knowledge

To analyse the social functions, text structures, and  lexicogrammatical features of procedure texts in regard to the contexts of situation

Skills

1.        To read  procedure  texts  aloud, meaingfully, clearly, and accurately.

2.        To compare the social functions of procedure texts.

3.        To compare the text structure of procedure texts.

4.        To compare the lexicogrammatical features of procedure texts.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.        To read a number of procedure texts meaningfully and fluently, with accurate pronunciation, word stress, and intonation.

2.        To compare the social functions of a number of procedure   texts  regarding the issues, the target readers, the points of interests or importance.

3.        To compare the structure of each of the procedure texts, including the goal, (material), steps, tips or warning.

4.        To compare the lexicogrammatical features of procedure texts by determining the choice of words and expressions, the use of direct and indirect sentences, the tenses, the fonts, the punctuation marks, etc.

Learning Materials

Learning materials in this activity will be divided into two main sections; Key Features of The Text and Meaning Making Task. Study them carefully and do each of the tasks that follows.

Key Features of Procedure Texts

Procedure Texts

Social Function     

To describe how something is accomplished through a sequence of actions or steps.

Generic Structure     

• Goal
• Materials (not required for all procedural texts)
• Steps 1 – n (i.e. goal followed by a series of steps oriented to achieve the goal) 

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features     

• Focus on generalized human agents
• Use of simple present tense, often imperative
• Use mainly of temporal conjunctions (or numbering to indicate sequence)
• Use mainly of material processes

Meaning Making Tasks

This section is divided into two parts. The first part, Getting to KnowProcedure Texts, includes a number of Tasks in which you will be guided to analyse 

(1) the social functions,

(2) the text structures, and 

(3) the lexicogrammatical features of procedure texts from three different contexts of situation. 

The second part, Producing Procedural Texts. In this part you will write a procedure text and record yourself performing the procedural instruction according to social functions, text structures, and lexicogrammatical features.