An Analysis of Cohesive Devices in the Jakarta Post.Skripsi, English Education Department Teacher Training and Education Faculty Muria Kudus University.

Kumalasari,, Emi. (2013) An Analysis of Cohesive Devices in the Jakarta Post.Skripsi, English Education Department Teacher Training and Education Faculty Muria Kudus University. Update Test thesis, Universitas Muria Kudus.

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Kumalasari, Emi. 2013. An Analysis of Cohesive Devices in the Jakarta Post.Skripsi, English Education Department Teacher Training and Education Faculty Muria Kudus University. Advisors: (1)AgungDwiNurcahyo, SS, M.Pd, (2) Fitri Budi Suryani, SS, M.Pd Key words : cohesive devices, article, Jakarta Post Cohesive devices is really important in constructing writing text because written text is considered as a good text if it is cohesive and coherence. Cohesion is the internal property of paragraph which conveys the relation of meaning that exists within a text. Then, coherence is contextual property of paragraph which conveys the relation of each paragraph to each other. Cohesive devices is identified to be grammatical cohesion (reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction) and lexical cohesion (repetition, synonym, superordinate, general word, collocation). Those ties of cohesive devices should be found in every written text. One kind of written text is articles. It can be found in newspaper or any printed media. An English newspaper which is easy to find is Jakarta Post newspaper. It is a unique printed media from which Indonesian community at large can study English. The contributors are mostly Indonesians and there are foreign writers also. They have good grammar, enhanced with vocab and easier to understand. Through reading Jakarta Post, the students will get much more vocabulary, and know how to write using cohesive devices as in articles of Jakarta Post. That is why the researcher decided to analyze the articles in Jakarta Post. The purpose of this research is only one. It is to find out the types of cohesive devices used in the Jakarta Post articles. In order to reach the purpose of the research, the researcher used descriptive qualitative method in this research, since this research describes the analysis of cohesive devices found in the Jakarta Post articles. The data of the research is the cohesive devices which are found in the educational theme article of Jakarta Post, there are eight articles found, while the data source is the Jakarta Post newspaper. Based on the result of the research, the researcher found the total percentage of types of cohesive devices in eight articles. Start from the highest percentage, there are repetition 45,3%, reference 25,5%, collocation 16%, conjunction 10,5%, ellipsis 2%, superordinate 0,4%, substitution 0,1%, synonymy 0,1%, and 0% for general word. The researcher’s opinion is, those finding show that the articles have good cohesiveness. Related to the finding above the researcher suggests to the article writers to enrich their writing with cohesive devices, so the readers can catch the essential of the article. Then, to the English learners, they should read Jakarta Post timely in order to improve their English. The last, the lecturers can use Jakarta Post as the reference in giving task to the students.

Item Type: Skripsi/ Thesis (Update Test)
Dosen Pembimbing: (1)AgungDwiNurcahyo, SS, M.Pd, (2) Fitri Budi Suryani, SS, M.Pd
Kata Kunci: cohesive devices, article, Jakarta Post
Subjects: Bahasa dan sastra > Bahasa Inggris
Program Studi: Fakultas Keguruan & Ilmu Pendidikan > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Diana Diana
Date Deposited: 18 Jul 2013 03:11
Last Modified: 18 Jul 2013 03:11
URI: http://eprints.umk.ac.id/id/eprint/1523

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