GENRE

English language has been introduced to Indonesia High Schools since 2004. This was meant to recify the failure of the teaching of English in Indonesia and to answer criticism of the previous English curicula, which have been claimed by some as failure (Lengkanawati, 2005).

In Indonesia has conduct "KTSP" ("Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pengajar", or Teacher unit level curriculum) for Junior and Senior High Schools which English teacher should introduced about kind of Genres.

Genres are often divided into fifty-two subgenres. Literature, for example, is divided into three basic kinds of literature, which are the classic genres of Ancient Greece: poetry, drama, and prose. Poetry may then be subdivided into epic, lyric, and dramatic.

Genre also has a rich tradition in speech-making and criticism. Classical rhetoricians in Greece suggested that there were three primary genres of speech: forensic, deliberative, and epideictic. Forensic speeches are informative, aiming to establish something that happened. Deliberative speeches try to persuade an audience.

Genre (pronounced /ˈʒɑːnrə/, also /ˈdʒɑːnrə/; from French, genre /ʒɑ̃ʀ/, "kind" or "sort", from Latin: genus (stem gener-), Greek: genos, γένος) is the term used to describe a loose set of criteria for categorization of literature and speech, as well as many other forms of art or culture.

Genres are formed by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones is discontinued. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.

While the scope of the word "genre" is commonly confined to art and culture, it also defines individuals' interactions with and within their environments. These interactions and environments must be recurring in order to be recognized as genre.

There are 12 kind of Genres; Recount, Report, Discussion, Explanation, Narrative, Procedure, Description, Review, Exposition (Analytical), Exposition (Hortatory), New Item, and Anecdote.