Recount Text

Recount text

~ Recount text is a text that is used to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.

The generic structures of recount text are :

1. Orientation (it gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text such as who was involved, where it happened, when it happened).
2. Events (a series of events, ordered in chronological sequerce)
3. Re-Orientation (restates the writer’s opinion or personal comment of the writer on the incident.


The significant lexicogrammatical features :

- Use of simple past tense
- Use of temporal conjuctions (when,after,before,next,later,then)
- Use of personal pronoun (I,we)