Analysis of Cohesion and Coherence of Middle Eastern News Discourse and its Implications for Indonesian Language Learning in High School

Abstract

Cohesion and coherence are parts that form a text/discourse. Both of them characterize the completeness of a text/discourse. This research aims to describe 1) the form of cohesion of Middle Eastern news discourse in the June 2024 edition of Sindonews.com and its implications for Indonesian language learning in high school, 2) the form of coherence of Middle Eastern news discourse in the June 2024 edition of Sindonews.com and its implications for Indonesian language learning in high school, and 3) the implications of the results of the analysis of the form of cohesion and coherence of Middle Eastern news discourse in the June 2024 edition of Sindonews.com and its implications for Indonesian language learning in high school. This research is qualitative descriptive research. The subject of this research is news text about the Middle East in the June 2024 edition of Sindonews.com. The results of this research are 1) the form of cohesion contained in the news discourse about the Middle East in the June 2024 edition of Sindonews.com in the form of lexical and grammatical forms. In grammatical cohesion, the dominant parts are references and conjunctions. Meanwhile, the dominant part of lexical cohesion is repetition. 2) the form of coherence contained in the news discourse about the Middle East in the June 2024 edition of Sindonews.com, namely cause and effect, conditions for results, applicative, identification, specific generic, background to conclusions, and means of results. Meanwhile, the dominant coherence relationship is the cause-and-effect relationship. 3) The implication for learning is that this form of cohesion and coherence in news texts can be used as teaching material for Indonesian language subjects, news text material in high school.