The Use of Cohesive Devices in the Writing of Senior High School Students in Kebumen

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10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.55How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cohesive devices; cohesion; writing; report text; grammatical cohesion; lexical cohesion

Abstract

This study analyzed the use of cohesive devices in the students’ writing in senior high school students at tenth grade in academic year 2017/2018. The sample of this research were three groups of students in three of school that divided into three areas which are urban, sub-urb, and rural area. There were 96 students composition to be analyzed in this study. The data were collected by students’ composition in making report text thas was analyzed by using the theory of cohesion by Halliday ad Hasan (1976), this research intended to investigate the cohesive devices used by the students, the cohesive devices used prominently, and the differences of the use of cohesive from each school. A qualitative research methodology was used to analyze the writing of the three groups to reveal the points of strengths and weaknesses in their writing. The analyzed was concerned with: grammatical cohesion (reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction) and lexical cohesion (reiteration and collocation). The result show that there was a difference occurrence of cohesive devices from each school. This study reveal that three groups of the students produced four the major of cohesive devices. There were reference, subtitution, conjunction, and lexical cohesion. The data from three of school explained that the sub-urban school most dominantly used cohesive devices; lexical cohesion is the highest occurrence in this group then followed by conjunction, ellipsis, and subtitution the lowest occurence.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Atik Muhimatun Asroriyah
AU  - Bambang Sugeng
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - The Use of Cohesive Devices in the Writing of Senior High School Students in Kebumen
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference of Communication Science Research (ICCSR 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 254
EP  - 257
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.55
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