In Indonesia, recount texts are included in the 2013 Curriculum. Students should be able to comprehend the recount texts and to write one. According to Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (2013: 88-89), students should understand the purpose, the structure of the texts, and linguistic elements of recount texts. Students are also required to compose oral and written recount texts about their experiences, activities, events, or phenomena around them and to understand the meanings provided in recount texts. A recount text is a text which tells the readers what happened. Derewianka (1990: 15), who is supported by Knapp and Watkins (2005: 234), provides the structural features of recount texts. In the usual way, recount texts have orientation which is followed by series of events. Derewianka states that orientation gives readers or listeners the background information needed to understand the text, such as who was involved, where it happened, and when it happened (Derewianka, 1990: 15...
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