Undergraduate Students’ Cohesion in Writing the Final Semester Test of Writing Class at English Education Department of IAIN Padangsidimpuan

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10.2991/assehr.k.200306.020How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cohesion, writing, final test

Abstract

Students are expected to have an writing skill when they are at university which can be assumed as a new skill to learn since they were not introduced to such skill during their high school period. Based on preliminary observation, students still lack of the textual from which they struggle with the cohesiveness of certain text genre. In English Department of IAIN Padangsidimpuan, the students have to write a discussion text as their final semester test. This research was designed as qualitative research. The subjects in this research were the sixth semester students of Writing II class at English Department of IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The data were collected from students’ discussion texts which will be written as the final semester test. The data were analyzed by using the theory introduced by Halliday and Hasan. Data were analyzed qualitatively. The procedure of qualitative research included: 1) data reduction, it was begun from the data collection until data analysis when the data have been obtained. Data were given codes; 2) data display, it included organizing and entering the data into the table in order to know what type and the total of cohesion used in writing discussion text. The analysis was concerned with: grammatical cohesion (reference, substitution, ellipsis and conjunction), lexical cohesion (reiteration and collocation) were found in the students’ writings. the researcher found 6 texts about dating, 2 texts about the advantages and disadvantages of internet and the other theme only 1 text in every theme. After being analyzed of the data, the researcher found 28.10 % occurred about reference in all the text, then 5.94% for substitusion, 61.62%, for conjunction. While, there is no the ellipsis, reiteration and collocation found in the discussion text of final semester test used by students. Thus, the dominant cohesion aspect occurred in these text was a conjunction. It was 61.62 % arround the text.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Laila Safitri
AU  - Hamzah
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/11
TI  - Undergraduate Students’ Cohesion in Writing the Final Semester Test of Writing Class at English Education Department of IAIN Padangsidimpuan
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 112
EP  - 118
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200306.020
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200306.020
ID  - Safitri2020
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