AZZA AZKIYA, 0203518010 (2023) THE REALIZATION OF COHESION TO ACHIEVE COHERENCE OF THE RECOUNT TEXTS IN THE ENGLISH TEXTBOOK FOR GRADE VIII LICENSED BY GOVERNMENT AND THE ONE PUBLISHED BY PENERBIT ERLANGGA. Masters thesis, UNIVERSITAS NEGERI SEMARANG.

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Abstract

The textbook has a crucial role in the English teaching and learning process since it provides a whole package of materials as well as activities and assignments. One of the main language materials presented by the textbook is reading texts. These reading texts in fact consist of a lot of genres, one of which is recount text. As a model text used by teachers and students, it needs to be stylistically well-written and effectively organized. In order to achieve these features, cohesion and coherence are essential. This study examines the realization of cohesion to achieve coherence in the recount texts featured in two English textbooks for grade VIII of junior high school students. In conducting this study, a qualitative approach with discourse analysis was adapted. Eight recount texts presented in the two textbooks are analyzed using cohesion concept by Halliday and Hasan (2014) and coherence concept by Thornbury (2005). There are four main findings of this study. First, in terms of grammatical cohesion, reference and conjunction dominated the findings; whilst lexical cohesion findings are dominated by collocation. Second, the texts are mostly organized by using the reiteration pattern. Third, the texts share more similarities than differences in regard to the result of the cohesion and coherence analysis. Lastly, the similarities and differences provide two effects to the text: indicating the texture of the text and representing the text quality.

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