Ujian Nasional mata pelajaran Bahasa Inggris bagi sebagian besar siswa masih

dianggap sulit dan selalu menjadi hal yang dihindari atau ditakuti, apalagi bagi siswa di
daerah pinggiran. Sebenarnya akar permasalahan ini adalah minimnya penguasaan kosa-kata.
Namun jika jeli dan tidak mudah putus asa sebenarnya soal-soal tertentu dapat dikerjakan
dengan benar meski hanya sedikit sekali mengetahui arti dari kata-kata yang digunakan. Ya,
caranya harus rajin berlatih mengerjakan soal dan titen. Seperti halnya bagaimana
mengidentifikasi dan menemukan jawaban atas soal yang menanyakan tujuan komunikatif
suatu teks.
TUJUAN KOMUNIKATIF TEKS
1. Short Functional Text
1. A functional text is a piece of writing that communicates something from an individual or
group to another.

TYPES OF SHORT FUNCTIONAL

TEXT
Caution
Greeting card
Short message
Invitation
Announcement
Label
Advertisement
Letter

PURPOSE
Depends on the content of the text
Depends on the content of the text
Depends on the content of the text
To invite
To announce./ To inform.
Depends on the content of the text
To advertise/ To promote./ To
persuade.
Depends on the content of the text

2. Essay Text

GENRE

PURPOSE

TYPE

NARRATIVE To entertain the reader OR To amuse Short stories, Fables, Folk

the reader OR To provide
tales Plays, Legends,
entertainment and to make the
Myths, Ballads
audience think about an issue, teach
them a lesson, or excite their emotions.
REPORT
To present information about a person, Reference articles,
thing or place OR To classify and/or lecture, scientific articles,
describe using facts about the subjects textbooks
parts, behavior and qualities.

RECOUNT

To tell events in the time order that

Diaries, letters, journals,
have happened OR To share.To
biographies, newspaper
provide the audience with a description reports, historical recount,
of what occurred and when it occurred autobiographies, incident
or retell ones past experience.
reports.
PROCEDURE To give instructions about how to do Recipes, instructional
something OR To explain how to do manuals, experiment
something, how to make something or reports, spoken directions
how to get somewhere.
DESCRIPTIV To describe about certain person,
Certain thing, person,
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animal or thing (a living or non-living animal, or place
thing)ORTo tell about the subject by
describing its features without
including personal opinions.

3. Ciri soal yang menanyakan tujuan komunikatif teks biasanya menggunakan

pertanyaan seperti di bawah.

What is the purpose of the text?

What is the communicative purpose of the text?

What does the writer of the text write the text for?

What is the writers purpose of the text?

What is the writers intention ?

The purpose of writing the above text is .

The text is meant to ....