AN ANALYSIS OF COHESIVE DEVICES IN READING TEXT OF ”ENGLISH IN FOCUS”

Hana , Alayya Zidna (2013) AN ANALYSIS OF COHESIVE DEVICES IN READING TEXT OF ”ENGLISH IN FOCUS”. Update Test thesis, Universitas Muria Kudus.

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Hana, Zidna Alayya. 2013. “An Analysis of Cohesive Devices in reading text of “English in Focus”. Skripsi, English Education Department Teacher Training and Education Faculty Muria Kudus University. Advisor: (1) Titis Sulistyowati, SS, M.Pd, (2) Drs. Muh. Syafei, M.Pd. Keyword: Cohesive Devices, in reading text of English in Focus. Reading texts are in students textbook. There are various genres of reading text in their textbook. So it is necessary for the writers of reading texts in to make good cohesive devices in their reading text in order to the students understand the reading text. Furthermore, the writer decides to analyze about cohesive devices in “reading text of English in Focus”. After knowing the cohesive devices in the reading text English in Focus”. They can know how to use it in speaking. This research is aimed at knowing what type of cohesive devices are used of in the reading text of English In Focus and to know the percentage of each type of cohesive devices are used in the Reading text of English In Focus. The writer takes the data from Reading text of English in Focus. This research is descriptive qualitative. In this study, the writer concerned on cohesive devices divided into two parts grammatical cohesion there are reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction and lexical cohesion there are collocation and reiteration into four part repetition, synonym, hyponym, and metonym. In order to get the objective of this study, the writer used some theories related to the literature; cohesive devices used theories by Halliday and Hassan on book Cohesion in English. This research is focused on cohesive devices since the function of cohesive devices to link once sentence in the text, and they make a text easier to understand ad more communicative. The findings of the study reveal that, on the grammatical cohesive devices, the writer finds that the most common used is reference. The percentage of it is 48,06%. Then followed by conjunction, the percentage is 29,19%. Then followed by substitution, the percentage is 7,91%, after that followed by ellipsis, the percentage is 6,87% . Nevertheless, on the lexical cohesive devices, it is found that the most common used in reiteration namely repetition, the percentage is 5,99%. Then followed by hyponym, the percentage is 1,73%. Then followed by antonym the percentage is 0,96%. Then followed synonym the percentage is 0,30%. After that followed by metonym and collocation is 0,19%. So, the writer can conclude that this reading text has good cohesion as well as it can be called a good text because it has good relation among clauses. From this research, it is expected that this study will be useful for English learners. And it can be concluded that cohesive devices has very important role to make a good coherence in a text. By knowing the information of cohesive devices in spoken text, the English students should pay attention to the use of them in practicing speaking to develop their speaking.

Item Type: Skripsi/ Thesis (Update Test)
Dosen Pembimbing: Titis Sulistyowati, SS, M.Pd,
Kata Kunci: Cohesive Devices, in reading text of English in Focus
Subjects: Bahasa dan sastra > Bahasa Inggris
Program Studi: Fakultas Keguruan & Ilmu Pendidikan > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Mr Firman Al Mubaroq
Date Deposited: 24 Mar 2014 04:22
Last Modified: 24 Mar 2014 04:22
URI: http://eprints.umk.ac.id/id/eprint/2520

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