Abstract
This study aims at investigating the types of cohesive devices (CDs) and the errors in using cohesive devices (CDs) in opinion essays made by the Indonesian students of EFL.The subjects were twenty-six (26) undergraduate program students of EFL enrolled in an Argumentative writing class. To get the data, they were asked to write an opinion essay which consists of five paragraphs (including introductory and concluding paragraph). After the data were collected, each of the students’ paper was read to identify the use of cohesive devices based on the theory of cohesion proposed by Halliday and Hasan (1976). Then, the number, the frequency and the percentage of cohesive devices were counted. The results of the study revealed that reference had the highest percentage (52.04%), followed by lexical cohesion (32.95%) and conjunction (15.02%). Meanwhile, substitution and ellipsis were absent. Although there were three types of cohesive to be used, the errors still happened in small number such as in conjunction; but, so, or and and.
Highlights
Cohesive devices are the aspects that should be considered in writing an essay
Since the expected answers to research problems of the study are related to: (1) the types of cohesive devices (CDs) as used in an opinion essay and (2) the errors in using CD in an opinion essay made by the Indonesian students of EFL
The Use of CDs The summary of the use of CDs in opinion essays written by the Indonesian students of EFL can be shown in the following table
Summary
Cohesive devices are the aspects that should be considered in writing an essay. Cohesive devices deal with how ideas organized in order to flow smoothly. The flow of the ideas is clearly recognized and comprehended when the signals of the connection among sentences are provided by the writers (Rahayu & Cahyono, 2015). The flow of the ideas cannot be recognised and comprehended when the signals of the connection among sentences are not provided. The availability of signals of the connection among sentences is really needed. The availability of signals of the connection among sentences can Premise Journal Vol 10 No 1, April 2021, e-ISSN: 2442-482x, p-ISSN: 2089-3345, page 54-64 Copyright@2021 by PJEE
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