scholarly journals The Contribution of Lexical Cohesion to the Text Cohesion in EFL Students’ Expository Texts

ELT in Focus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Hanif Nurcholish Adiantika
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Expository Texts ◽  
West Java ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Twelfth Grade ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Text Cohesion

This study aims to investigate the use of lexical cohesion in students’ expository texts. It reveals thetypes of lexical cohesion employed by the students in their expository texts and the contribution oflexical cohesion to the text’ cohesion. This study employs qualitative research by using a case studydesign. Nine students of twelfth grade in a public senior high school in Kuningan regent, West Java,are chosen as the participants. The data in this study include the documents of students’ expositorytexts. The data are analyzed by using the concept of cohesive devices proposed by Halliday andHasan (1976). The findings show that there are two lexical cohesions identified in nine students’expository texts i.e. reiteration (covering i.e. antonymy, repetition, synonymy, meronymy, andhyponymy) and collocation. This study also indicates that lexical cohesion contribute to the processof keeping track of the participants and engaging the readers to the core argument of the text.Moreover, it can be stated that the contribution of lexical cohesion towards students’ expositorytexts is considered low. Therefore, there must be an encouragement for the students to use properlexical cohesion to make their text more cohesive.

scholarly journals The Use of Substitution and Its Contribution to the Text Cohesion in Students’ Expository Texts

ELT in Focus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Hanif Nurcholish Adiantika ◽  
Astri Dwi Floranti
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Study Design ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Expository Texts ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Twelfth Grade ◽  
Text Cohesion

The present study intends to investigate the use of substitution in students’ expository texts. It covers the types of substitution used by the students in their expository texts and the contribution of substitution to the texts’ cohesion. This study uses qualitative research through case study design. The participants in this study are nine students of twelfth grade in a public senior high school in Kuningan. The data in the present study are the documents of students’ expository texts. The data are analyzed by using the frameworks of cohesive devices proposed by Halliday and Hasan (1976). The findings indicate that there is only one substitution found in this study namely nominal substitution. The present study also delineates that the use of substitution contributes to the process of avoiding repetition and text redundancy. Furthermore, it can be concluded that the use and the contribution of substitution in students’ expository texts are still considered low. Thus, the encouragement is very necessary for the students to use appropriate substitution to make their texts more cohesive.

scholarly journals Cohesive Devices In EFL Students’ Expository Writing

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Hanif Nurcholish Adiantika
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Expository Writing ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
The Core ◽  
Logical Connection ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Twelfth Grade ◽  
Efl Students

This study aims to investigate the use of cohesive devices in students’ expository writing. In particular, the study focuses on types of cohesive device used by the students and how cohesive devices contribute to their writing. This study employs qualitative research through a case study design. Public senior high school in Kuningan is chosen as the site for this study. Nine students of twelfth grade are involved in the study as the respondents. Documents of nine students’ expository writings are the data of this study. The data are analyzed by using the concept of cohesive devices proposed by Halliday and Hasan (1976) which covers reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, and lexical cohesion. Analyses show that the respondents only use four cohesive devices in their writing i.e. reference, substitution, conjunction, and lexical cohesion. These devices also contribute to the process of keeping track of the participants, avoiding repetition and text redundancy, enhancing logical connection between parts of text, and engaging the readers to the core argument of the text. The study infers that it is still problematic although most of the students apply many cohesive devices in their writing. This is because students have not received sufficient training concerning how to use appropriate cohesive devices. Therefore, they should be guided to utilize appropriate cohesive devices in their writing.Keywords: cohesive devices, cohesion, EFL students, expository writing, case study

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF ENDOPHORIC REFERENCE COHESION DEVICES IN MARK ZUCKERBERG BIOGRAPHY

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Melani Siti Khalifah ◽  
Juan Carlina Wibowo ◽  
Cynantia Rachmijati
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
The Subject ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The aim of the research is to find out endophoric references in Mark Zuckerberg biography and the relationship between discourse analysis and pragmatic. The research used descriptive qualitative research design. The data obtained from Mark Zuckerberg biography written by the biography website. The data are analyzed using Halliday & Hasan’s theory (1976) of reference cohesion reference is one of the cohesive devices. The result shows that endophoric reference exists in Mark Zuckerberg biography endophoric. Endophoric consist of two types, the first is anaphoric and the second is cataphoric. In this research there are five type cohesive devices that are usually used in texts like substitution, references, ellipsis, lexical cohesion, and conjunctions. In the research found that cataphoric is dominant than anaphoric because the subject is located in the beginning of the sentences. Cohesive devices not only focused on lexical cohesion, but also focused on ellipsis and substitution and reference.

scholarly journals Nilai Religius pada Cerpen Ciumlah Aku di Ujung Subuh Karya Hamzah Puadi Ilyas

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-205
Author(s):  
Deasy Wahyu Hidayati
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Personal Attitude ◽  
The Core ◽  
Personal Attitudes ◽  
The Universe

The purpose of this study is to find a description of the elements or religious values ​​contained in the short stories of Kiss Aku di Ujung Subuh by Hamzah Puadi Ilyas. The method in this study is a descriptive qualitative research method. The religious value in the short story Kiss Aku di Ujung Subuh by Hamzah Puadi Ilyas shows that there is religious value in the aspect of belief in Allah, including believing in angels, the Day of Judgment, the prophet's ark, and believing in the Koran and hadiths; religious value in the aspect of awe of the majesty of God includes amazement at the aroma of wickedness, the power of God, and the creation of the universe; religious values ​​in the aspect of the vibration of a personal conscience include a heart vibration of gratitude, cries of events, past memories, and dreams; religious values ​​in the aspect of personal attitudes include the attitude of worship, prostrate, makeistigfar, dhikr, and read the Koran / juz-amma; and religious values ​​in the aspect of mental intimidation include intimidation of the soul from karma, the core process of death, and the process of taking one's life. Based on the results of this study, it can also be seen that the religious value that appears most in the short stories of Ciinum Aku di Ujung Subuh by Hamzah Puadi Ilyas is personal attitude.   Keywords: Score; Religious; Short story; High school

scholarly journals A Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis of Cohesion and The Writing Quality of Saudi Female EFL Undergraduate Students

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khawater Fahad Alshalan
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Writing Assessment ◽  
Writing Quality ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Qualitative Data Analysis Software ◽  
Writing Scores

This study aims to investigate how frequently Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) cohesive devices were used as well as their relationship with the writing quality of 100 Saudi EFL undergraduate students in Al Imam Muhammed Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It uses a mixed method approach, where the students’ essays were analyzed using systemic functional linguistics (SFL) in terms of the textual meta-function of cohesive devices. The five types of the cohesive devices are the following: lexical cohesion, reference, conjunction, substitutions, and ellipses. Moreover, each of their subcategories were analyzed in the students’ texts. The NVivo qualitative data analysis software and the corpus analysis (conducted using AntConc) were used to calculate the frequencies of each cohesive device found in the data. The IELTS writing assessment scale was also used to evaluate the students’ writing scores. The results show that the most frequently used device was lexical cohesion, specifically repetition. Saudi EFL undergraduate students tended to repeatedly stay focused on the central idea of the topic. Furthermore, Pearson’s correlation coefficient found a relationship between the students’ writing scores and length of their essays, the use of cohesive ties and the scores, and cohesive ties and the length of the students’ essays. This study recommends that EFL teachers provide Saudi EFL students several cohesive tools in order to help them improve their writing skills and connect their ideas smoothly.

scholarly journals A Study of Non-structure Cohesion in the Texts in New Senior English for China Student’s Book 5 and 6

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 695-710
Author(s):  
Yuan Zhao
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
Coding Scheme ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Senior English ◽  
English Textbooks ◽  
Cohesion Theory ◽  
At Home

Since the publication of Cohesive in English co-authored by Halliday and Hasan in 1976, more linguistics at home and abroad have been analyzing and studying this theory in detail. Thus, cohesion theory has been steadily growing. Existing studies, however, tended to focus on the analysis of cohesive devices in a variety of discourses other than the texts from English textbooks for Chinese high school learners. To address this gap, this study used 5 articles from New Senior English for China Student’s Book 5 and 6 to explore the non-structure cohesive devices. By means of the coding scheme suggested by Halliday and Hasan in 1976, the cohesive patterns in a text were represented. The results showed that coherence in the 5 texts largely depends on lexical cohesion. Then, a further analysis of the five lexical cohesive devices showed that among them, same item having reference that is identical proved to be the most in the texts. The main reasons is perhaps that since the texts are from school textbooks for Chinese teenagers, the student readers almost certainly do not have the ability to make much sense of a fairly complex text whose coherence may largely depends on substitution or ellipsis.

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF COHESION IN TEXTS MADE BY ELT 7TH STUDENTS OF IKIP PGRI MADIUN: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Titis Karistiantari ◽  
Dwi Setyadi ◽  
Lusia Kristiasih Dwi Purnomosasi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Flow Model ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
Final Project ◽  
Thematic Progression ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Cohesive Devices

<p>The purpose of this research is to identify the cohesive devices and thematic progression which are constructed in texts made by ELT 7<sup>th</sup> Students of IKIP PGRI Madiun on Final Project of Psycholinguistic Class. This research is conducted by using Discourse Analysis and qualitative research approach. The type of this research is library research, using document as object. The technique of analysing data is Flow Model. This result of this research are: (1) The researcher finds that the cohesive devices which the most frequently used in all data is Reference with the total 122 reference, 5 substitution, 4 ellipsis, 86 conjunction, and 15 lexical cohesion. (2) The researcher finds that thematic progression in each data is different. Data one consists of 9 Linear TP and 8 Constant TP. Data two consists of 10 Linear TP, 7 Constant TP, 1 Split Theme, and 2 Split Rheme. Data Three consist of 4 Linear TP and 11 Constant TP. Data four consists of 18 Linear TP, 3 Constant TP, and 1 Split Rheme. And the last one is data five consists of 4 Linear TP, 2 Constant TP, and 2 Split Rheme. </p>

scholarly journals PEWUJUDAN KOHESI DAN KOHERENSI PADA JURNAL REFLEKSI GURU BAHASA INDONESIA SMP DI KABUPATEN MAROS

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
Hasnah Lukman ◽  
Muhammad Darwis ◽  
Asriani Abbas
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Junior High School Teachers ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

Journal of learning reflection using cohesion and coherence. This study aims, describe the realization and the forefront of the principles of cohesion and coherence in the journals reflection of learning Indonesian junior high school teachers in Maros District.                    The type of qualitative research with descriptive method, data collection techniques refer and note. The study population is a whole lingual unit containing cohesion and coherence.              The results of the study show that the cohesion embodiment used is lexical cohesion (repetition and equivalence), grammatical cohesion (references and conjunctions), and coherence (causation, consequence, condition, argumentative and means-result) the cohesion used is repetition, equivalence, reference, and conjunction. As for the application of the coherence rules used by causal relationships, consequences, conditions, arguments, and means-results

scholarly journals The Implementation of CSR on EFL Students’ Reading Class in Different Group Sizes

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 1453
Author(s):  
Ita Moraliawati ◽  
Johannes Ananto Prayogo ◽  
Gunadi Harry Sulistyo
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Expository Texts ◽  
School Students ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Senior High School Students

<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> This study addresses senior high school students’ reading comprehension on expository texts and its relation with the group sizes assigned to the students. It involves 133 eleventh grade students of SMAN Model Terpadu Bojonegoro. Quantive data were analyzed descriptively. The findings show that CSR affect the students’ reading comprehension significantly. Yet, it fails to reveal the effect of group sizes arrangement on the strategies applied towards the students reading comprehension. Consequently, the use of CSR in reading class can not be related to the group sizes assigned to the students. </p><strong>Abstrak:</strong><em> </em>Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap penguasaan pemahaman bacaan siswa SMA dan hubungannya dengan ukuran kelompok yang ditetapkan pada siswa. Penelitian ini melibatkan 133 siswa kelas XI SMAN Model Terpadu Bojonegoro. Data kuantitatif dianalisis secara deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan CSR memberikan pengaruh yang signifikan pada pemahaman bacaan siswa. Namun, penelitian ini gagal menunjukkan pengaruh ukuran pengaturan kelompok dalam strategi yang diterapkan terhadap pemahaman bacaan siswa. Karena itu, penggunaan CSR dalam pembelajaran membaca tidak bisa dihubungkan dengan ukuran kelompok yang ditugaskan kepada siswa.

scholarly journals Cohesion in 20th Century American Short Stories Compiled By Jean A. McConochie, and Its Contribution to Teach Reading in Senior High School

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Hening Laksani ◽  
Martono, Martono, ◽  
Endang Setyaningsih
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Language Use ◽  
English Education ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
American Short Stories

<p>Five types of cohesive devices are identified by Halliday and Hasan (1976), namely, reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction and lexical cohesion. Each of the five types is about the formal links within sentences. This qualitative research method describes the kind of cohesive devices employed in 20<sup>th</sup> Century American Short Stories and discusses its implication for developing teaching material for reading skill in Senior High School. The result of the study shows that cohesive devices mostly appeared in the short stories are lexical cohesion followed by references, conjunction, ellipsis and then substitution. The contribution of this research to English education is the cohesive devices can be used as a lesson material for teaching reading both as the example of language use in order to familiarize  about the use of pronouns, conjunctions and dictions, also it can be used to show the way to substitute or omit a word meaningfully and as the task students need to accomplish.</p><p> </p>

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