Nur Aeni Afiati Mafuroh , 2201414029 (2019) COHERENCE IN STUDENTS’ ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXTS (A Case of the Fourth Semester Students of English Department of UNNES in the Academic Year of 2017/2018). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This study aims to reveal the coherence of 19 analytical exposition texts written by the fourth semester students of English Department of UNNES through the analysis of schematic structure, thematic choices, and thematic development. Coherence is an essential component to create a make-sense text. Thus, it is very important to know the students’ competency in writing a good text. This study applied a qualitative approach. It employed the theories of schematic structure based on stages proposed by Gerot and Wignell (1995), thematic choices from Gerot and Wignell (1995), and thematic development by Eggins (2004). The findings indicated that the students preferably used topical Theme (67.79%) and textual Theme (30.42%). In addition, in terms of thematic development, Theme reiteration is the commonest pattern applied by the students. Based on the findings, students’ texts were less coherence because there were several texts having an incomplete thesis at the beginning of the paragraph and one text leaving 1 out of 3 stages of exposition text. Furthermore, the over-use of Theme Reiteration might show that the students’ writing skill is low because they could not elaborate their ideas through various methods. Therefore, it is suggested that the students should learn how to organize their ideas into a coherent analytical exposition text. For the teachers, they should give clear explanation and instruction during the learning process in order to make the students understand the material of exposition text easily. Moreover, for the further researchers, they are expected to find an alternative approach to help the students in writing a coherent text.

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