Narrative and analytical interplay in history texts: recalibrating the historical recount genre

Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) informed genre theory, this paper investigates the interplay between narrative and analytical representations of past in texts used for history-educational purposes. In paper, it is argued that role merits further attention history descriptions. Thirteen texts, selected from a lower-secondary history-instructional unit about European colonization, are examined. The examination stages, elements, way historical significance expressed these arrives at re-calibration recount suggesting four distinct types with different configurations narrative-analytical interplay. findings have implications our understanding elements genre-based approaches to instruction concern reading writing texts.