An Analysis of Grammatical Cohesion in Exposition Text Written by the Eleventh Grade Students in MAN 2 Padang

Al Khairi, Ilham (2020) An Analysis of Grammatical Cohesion in Exposition Text Written by the Eleventh Grade Students in MAN 2 Padang. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.

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Abstract

This study aimed to analyse the use of grammatical cohesive devices in an analytical exposition text written by the eleventh grade students of MAN 2 Padang based on Halliday and Hasan's theory (1976). Grammatical cohesive devices was used in order to write a cohesive text for helping both writer and reader. The participants of this research were 65 eleventh grade students in MAN 2 Padang. This study was descriptive qualitative research used in analysing the grammatical cohesive devices in an analytical exposition text. There were some instrumentations used in this research such as: writing test, table analysis and formulation. The findings of the research showed that all of the grammatical cohesive devices; reference, substitution, ellipsis and conjunction; used by the students in writing a text. There were 1.225 grammatical cohesive used by the students in writing an analytical exposition text. However, ellipsis and substitution were rarely used in that text. Moreover, some sub-categories of ellipsis and substitution were never used in the text. In addition, there was no clausal substitution, verbal ellipsis and clausal ellipsis in the text. Moreover, there are also some errors found in the text. In fact, the most and least grammatical cohesive devices errors are different from the usage. The most grammatical cohesive device error is conjunction. It was followed by reference. Them the least grammatical cohesive device error is ellipsis followed by substitution.

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