Grammatical Cohesive Devices Analysis on Students’ Essays (A Study of the Fifth Semester Students of English Department, Universitas Negeri Semarang Academic Year of 2017/2018)


Pas Faishal Haniq , 2201412006 (2019) Grammatical Cohesive Devices Analysis on Students’ Essays (A Study of the Fifth Semester Students of English Department, Universitas Negeri Semarang Academic Year of 2017/2018). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Writing is one of the most difficult langusge skill since there are several things to be considered. In order to produce cohesive text, cohesive devices are needed. This final project deals with an analysis of grammatical cohesion devices in students’ essays. The objectives of this research were to describe what kind of grammatical cohesion devices used by students and their relation with the cohesiveness in texts. This study used qulitative-descriptive as the research design. The objects of this study are twenty three essays written by the fifth semester students. The essays were analysed by employing Halliday and Hasan’s theory of cohesion (1976). The finding shows that there were 696 grammatical cohesive devices found in students’ essays. Reference 336 (48,3%) is the mostly used grammatical cohesive devices then followed by conjunctions 331 (47.5%) , ellipsis 22 (3.2%) and substitution 7 (1%). Even though there are 3 times of misaccureacy in using those devices , the cohesiveness of the text is still achieved.

Item Type: Thesis (Under Graduates)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Cohesion, Grammatical Cohesive Devices, Analysis, Essay.
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PE English
Fakultas: Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris (S1)
Depositing User: Retma IF UPT Perpus
Date Deposited: 08 Apr 2020 16:02
Last Modified: 08 Apr 2020 16:02
URI: http://lib.unnes.ac.id/id/eprint/35624

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