Windyastuti, Prima (2014) THE USE OF COHESIVE DEVICES IN THE ENGLISH ESSAYS OF SEMESTER IV STUDENTS OF YOGYAKARTA STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/ 2013. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.
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Abstract
Writing plays an important role in the field of education and society. But for students of English Education Study Program of Yogyakarta State University, writing an English essay constitutes a tough task in which the cohesive devices used by the students is one of the major problems. Building upon Halliday & Hasan’s (1976) cohesion theory, this research intended to investigate thecohesive devices usedby the English Education Study Program students on essays writing, the cohesive devices used prominently, and also the interpretation of cohesive devices used by the students. The data were taken from thesemester IV students’ English essay writing of G class of Yogyakarta State University in the Academic Year of 2012/ 2013. From this class, there were 31 essays to be analized. Content analysis which includes in thetypes of qualitative approach was used in this research. There were necessary steps taken involving the data collection and data analysis. The findings of this research show that all major types of cohesive devices were found in the analyzed essays. There were reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, and lexical cohesion. Among those five types found, lexical cohesion holds the most prominently used for 1,748 times or 58.54%, followed by the reference occurrences for 1,092 times or 36.57%. Conjunction occurs for 121 times or 4.05%, and ellipsis occurs for 20 time or 0.67%. While substitution as the least prominence occurs for only 5 times or 0.17%. The frequent use of lexical cohesion especially repetition can be interpreted as an attempt to emphasize the points of the essays topic and gives strong impression in the readers’ mind. The essence of using reference is to minimize the repetition of people’s name, objects, and events occurring in the same essays. The use of ellipsis and substitution is interpreted to facilitate the students to control the number of words used to express the information. In addition, the use of conjunction is also to represent the connection which is recognized between sentences.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cohesive devices, english essays |
| Subjects: | Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS |
| Date Deposited: | 12 May 2015 03:30 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2019 22:17 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/18517 |
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