Grammatical Cohesion Research Articles

Exploring Students' Competence in Mastering Cohesion

Cohesion is an important element in writing that must be fulfilled by students as competence to develop systematic and logical texts in expressing ideas. The paper describes the cohesion mastered by the students in writing narrative, recount, and report texts. It belongs to quantitative method. The data are authentic written data of grammatical and lexical cohesion mastered by the students in writing narrative, recount, and report texts. The writers analysed the students' written texts in terms of their cohesion employment. The paper reports the findings that all of cohesive devices are mastered by the students but in different intensity: the most dominant grammatical cohesive device used by the students is reference, while for that of lexical cohesive device is repetition. The students' competence in mastering cohesion is different from one text to another, but in general it is sufficient. Their competence in writing narratives is better than that in recounts and reports. It indicates that the students' narrative texts are readable than the other texts. Cohesion needs to be emphasized in teaching writing so that students can be competent in writing texts.

Penanda Kohesi Gramatikal dalam Novel Anak Rantau Karya Ahmad Fuadi

This study aimed to described the markers of grammatical cohesion in Ahmad Fuadi's novel Anak Rantau and to explain the dominant markers of grammatical cohesion found in Ahmad Fuadi's novel Anak Rantau. This type of research because the data is in the form of languange units (paragraphs, sentences, clauses, and phrases) which contain grammatical cohesion markers. The data source of this research is from the novel Anak Rantau by Ahmad Fuadi. Methods and technique the research data collection use the observation and note method and technique used, namely the tapping technique. The findings of this study are, first, the four markers of grammatical cohesion in Ahmad Fuadi's novel Anak Rantau by: (a) references or referred to as references are divided into three type, including: personal pronouns, demonstrative references, and comparative references. (b) conjuction and liaison is divided into three types, namely: liaison between clauses, liaison between sentences, and liaison between paragraphs. (c) substitution or what is commonly called restitution is divided into four types, nominal substitution, verbal substitution, fractal substitution, and clausal substitution. (d) ellipsis or impingement. Second, the dominant grammatical cohesion marker found in Ahmad Fuadi's novel Anak Rantau, namely the references contained in personal pronouns or what can be called a persona reference was found as many as 1193 data. The author of the novel mostly uses personal pronouns, especially in the pronoun persona III (third) closely bound form, namely 797 data found and mostly refers to the character Hepi and Lenon.

Grammatical and Lexical Cohesion as Students’ Language Ability in Composing Sentences of Observation Report Texts

This study aims to 1) describe the grammatical and lexical cohesion used by the students to compose sentences of the observation report text and 2) explain the role of grammatical and lexical cohesion in the students' observation report texts. The data source of this research was students as many as 70 people with 70 written text data of student observation reports. The analysis results showed that the use of grammatical cohesion which includes pronoun and conjunction. Lexical cohesion includes repetition, antonym, synonym, and hyponym. The roles of the two cohesions can help students to develop sentences to be cohesive.

ANALYZING COHESION IN THE LYRICS OF THE SONG" TERANG BULAN "BY ALM. DJAGA DEPARI

This study discusses the use of cohesion markers in the lyrics of the song "Terang Bula" by the late Djaga Depari. The aim is to describe the shape of the marker Grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion between lyrics in the song. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. Subject on This research is the song "Terang Bulan" by the late Djaga Depari. The object of this research is the whole form of cohesion markers contained in the songs "Terang Bulan" by the late Djaga Depari. Data obtained by reading and taking notes. The results showed that The form of markers of grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion found in the song “Terang Bulan” is in the form of a) exophore reference and endophore reference, b) substitution, c) ellipsis, d) conjunction, and e) reiteration in terms of repetition.

Lexical Cohesion Analysis On Scopus Indexed-Journal Entitled “A New Control Method For Power Based On Dynamic Evolution Control “

Cohesion is a semantic concept and part of the system of a language. The language can be orally or written. One of the indicators of good discourse (written) is having good cohesion and coherence aspect. This study is entitled Lexical Cohesion Analysis on Scopus-Indexed-Journal entitled “A New Control Method for Power based on Dynamic Evolution Control“. The aim of this study is to identify and describe the lexical cohesion in the Scopus-indexed article journal. This study is a qualitative research. The data sources in this study an article Scopus indexed-journal was obtained by purposive sampling. Furthermore, analysis of the data was done by identifying and classifying the data that related to cohesion, based on the theory of Halliday and Hasan (1976) and also analyzing used Spradley (1980). Based on the analysis, it was found five things related to cohesion and coherence. First, lexical cohesion devices which are used consist of repetition, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, and meronymy. The most frequent lexical cohesion used is repetition. Therefore, it can be of an interest to the (future) writer or researcher who are involved in writing journal. The study concludes that lexical cohesion determines writers’ tones in writing article and this ultimately contributes significantly enough in constructing persuasion and strong desire to persuade editorial boards of the journal to accept the article. It has also been highlighted that the findings of this study could be broaden in grammatical cohesion, and also be beneficial to researchers and ESL/EFL learners especially in persuasive and academic writing. Those aspects and factors can be considered to certain paper or journal article whether rejected or accepted in Scopus-indexed journal.

Analisis Kohesi Gramatikal (Konjungsi) dalam Novel Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk Karya Ahmad Tohari

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui unsur gramatikal yang ada pada novel Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk karya Ahmad Tohari. Unsur gramatikal yang diambil adalah seluruh unsur konjungsi. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif, karena penelitian kualitatif adalah penelitian yang paling cocok dengan fenomena sastra. Teknik analisis (Content Analysis) juga digunakan untuk wacana yang berhubungan dengan isi wacana novel, baik secara verbal maupun nonverbal; wacana verbal dalam penelitian ini adalah novel yang jumlah keseluruhan isi wacana tersebut yang dimaksud. Sampel utuh dari isi teks novel Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk adalah menggunakan sampel 2 cerita dari 3 cerita. Tiap cerita penulis akan mengambil 15 paragraf untuk di analisis. Dengan jumlah 30 paragraf. Gramatikal pada aspek konjungsi menunjukkan persentase pemakaian kohesi gramatikal pada aspek konjungsi sebanyak 62 pasang kalimat atau 60,78%.

Analisis Wacana Iklan Minuman pada Media Internet

Drink advertising is one of media that utilizes the biggest grammatical in promotional activities. The varian of discourse uses a choice of certain lingual units are composed of structure to achieve advertising purpose. This study aims to determine the cohesion parts, structure, and the aims of the beverage advertising through the discourse analysis approach. Data ware taken by observing the units beverage advertisement on internet. The qualitative approach is used to tell data descriptively and analyzed by agitation and matching methods. The results show (1) grammatical cohesion, namely: ellipsis, conjunctions, and noun repetition in lexical cohesion, (2) discourse structure is not equipped with a cover Minute Maid, Lemon Lime Sprite, and Coca-Cola. The dominant opening section aims to attract consumers' interest through the questions are given, and use propositions to attract special attention by writting customers’ name on Coca-Cola taq. The objective approach widely used in body of Lemon Lime Sprites, Yoo-Hoo Chocolate Drink, and Muscle Milk. Then, the advertising discourse has a closing part namely Yoo-Hoo Chocolate Drink uses hard technique, and Muscle Milk has subtle technique.

Cohesive devices in argumentative essays by Indonesian EFL learners

Cohesive devices are essential elements that have long been recognized as important features of good writing. However, making use of them appropriately is viewed as problematic for learners. This descriptive qualitative study aimed to investigate Indonesian EFL learners' ability to use cohesive devices in their writings. Twenty EFL learners of a state university in Malang, East Java, Indonesia were required to write and send one piece of argumentative essay consisting of five paragraphs to be analyzed. Twenty essays were analyzed by identifying the number of correct and errors of grammatical cohesion. The errors were then evaluated to know the possible causes that contributed to the learners' errors. The results showed that the total number of grammatical cohesion used by the learners was 2386, while 175 of them performed errors. It was also found that there was a heavy reliance on the use of particular cohesive items. The intralingual transfer mostly caused the errors made by learners. This implied a need for writing teachers to apply strategies for the development of EFL learners' writing ability, such as exposing students to exercises, using collaborative learning, giving feedback, and using the learning management system.

GRAMMATICAL COHESION SKILL FOR EFL LEARNERS: THE CASE OF UNIVERSITY LEVEL KURDISH LEARNERS OF ENGLISH

The skill of grammatical cohesion is required for EFL learners to be able to write cohesive texts. It includes having a command of reference cohesive devices (both anaphorically and cataphorically) of the foreign language. The aim of the current research was to explore the cases of anaphoric pronoun resolution of university level Kurdish Learners of English (KLEs). The secondary aim of the study was to find out the reason why participants did not use that cohesive device properly. To this end, the writing assignments of 60 senior English department students were analysed. The results showed the use of pronoun reference, reiteration of expressions (lack of using pronoun reference), and unsuccessful use of pronoun reference. The results also showed possible cases of Cross Linguistic Influence (in both its positive and negative forms). The study concluded that lack of suitable instructional strategies was the reason behind inappropriate use of reference. In the light of the results, it is recommended that Kurdish EFL learners need more efficient instructional strategies to use grammatical cohesive devices. Article visualizations:

Tahlīliyah al-Nassiyyah ‘an al-Sabaki al-Nahwiyyi fī Sūrah al-Qasaṣ

The grammatical cohesion is very important in the discourse because it relates to the meaning that will be produced. Therefore, the researcher would like to explore the grammatical cohesion in surat al-Qashash, which becomes an essential element that binds the semantic structure of a discourse. The grammatical cohesion devices can take the forms of intangible reference, substitution, ellipsis and conjunction.The problems investigated in this study include: the types of grammatical cohesion devices and in surah al-Qasas. Second, the types of grammatical devices contained in surah al-Qasas. This research uses descriptive qualitative method with content analysis approach and focuses on the grammatical cohesion devices contained in surah al-Qasas.The study found four types of grammatical cohesion devices namely reference, substitution, ellipsis and conjunction in the form of dhomir, words, phrases or sentences as a reference between two sentences in pairs.

AN ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL COHESION IN STUDENTS’ WRITING (A Case Study in the Eleventh Year Students of SMAN 1 Garut)

This study focused on AN ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL COHESION IN STUDENTS’ WRITING. It aims to discover what kinds of grammatical cohesive devices used in students’ writing recount text and how these grammatical cohesive devices are used in the students’ writing recount text. To achieve the aims of this research, the researcher used qualitative as research method and case study design. The data source of this research is the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Garut that consist of 10 students as participant. The writer has chosen 3 students from high-achiever, 4 students from middle achiever, and 3 students from lower-achiever. For collecting data, the writer used writing test. The writer put the data based on kinds of grammatical cohesion. The writer identified and classified each sentence in data, and the writer analyzed them by using theory from Halliday and Hasan (1976), Halliday&Mathiessen (2004), Bloor & Bloor (2004), Eggins (2004). The result of this study showed that all type of grammatical cohesion appeared in students’ recount text, but the use of substitution and ellipsis were rarely used by students in writing recount text while the use of reference and substitution were often used in students’ writing

Types of Lexical Cohesion and Grammatical Cohesion in Thesis Abstracts

This research attempted at investigating the types of lexical cohesion and grammatical cohesion used in thesis abstracts composed by undergraduate English department students of Universitas Bengkulu and also the errors of using cohesion. The research was designed as a descriptive quantitative method. The corpus of this study was 30 thesis abstracts composed by undergraduate English department students of Universitas Bengkulu. The instrument of this research was self-developed checklist. In analyzing data, the researchers were using formula by Sugiono. The results of this research showed that : 1.) There were 458 as the total number of six lexical cohesion types found in 30 thesis abstracts and the most dominant type is Repetition (58.7%). 2.) There were 783 as the total number of four grammatical cohesion types found in 30 thesis abstracts and the most dominant type is Reference (70.2%). 3.) There werere three errors of using cohesion namely omission of conjunction and selection of conjunction. Therefore, it was concluded that the thesis abstracts composed by undergraduate English department students of Universitas Bengkulu were in the percentage of 99.76% good.

GRAMMATICAL COHESION CONJUNCTION OF 99 CAHAYA DI LANGIT EROPA NOVEL BY HANUM SALSABIELA RAIS AND RANGGA ALMAHENDRA

Abstract: This article contains the results of research on discourse analysis of 99 Cahaya di Langit Eropa which is one of the best-selling novel in Indonesia. In addition to positioning the novel as a literary work, also need to analyze the novel in terms of linguistics. The purpose of this study was to determine the grammatical cohesion contained in the novel, specifically the conjuncture grammatical cohesion.This study uses qualitative content analysis techniques, sampling by way of reduction of the content of the novel. This research analyzes the use of grammatical conjunctions cohesion on the novel, which consists of grammatical cohesion adversative conjunctions, temporal, causal, and additives. The results of sample of 90 paragraphs, consisting of 263 pairs of sentences, 23 (8.75%) pairs of sentences were found to have conjunctural grammatical cohesion, and 240 (91.25%) sentences that didn’t have conjunctural grammatical marker relationships. Keywords: discourse, cohesion, conjunctions, novel.

A Portrait of an EFL Learners' Explanation Text: Cohesion and Coherence

This study aims to explore cohesion and coherence in an explanation text written by an EFL learner. To do this, the cohesive devices of the explanation text are analyzed. Also, the text is analyzed using the Thematic progressions theory to find out the logical relationship of the sentences and whether or not the text can meet the readers’ expectations. There are several steps to analyze both elements. The first is broking up the paragraphs of the text into sentences. The second is using Thematic progressions to analyze the text. Finally, the writer analyzed the cohesive devices which function to connect sentences. All those data later are elaborated in paragraphs as descriptive-qualitative research design is employed in this study. The results shows that, in term of cohesive devices, the writer uses direct repetition, partial repetition, and same lexical set to build lexical cohesion. It is also found that the writer uses reference, substitution, and ellipsis to build grammatical cohesion. However, the writer seems to have insufficient knowledge to use the cohesive devises correctly. Additionally, the analysis of Thematic progressions shows that some sentences in the text have no logical relationship. Lastly, this study finds that the writer also seem to have insufficient knowledge of schematic structures of the explanation text.
 Keywords: Exposition text; Cohesive Devices; Thematic Progression

UNSUR KOHESI PADA NASKAH DRAMA SENJA DENGAN DUA KELELAWAR DAN PEMANFAATANNYA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN SASTRA DI SEKOLAH MENENGAH ATAS

<em>This study aims to describe: (1) cohesive devices in drama script Senja dengan Dua Kelelawar by Kirdjomuljo, and (2) the relevance of cohesive devices on drama script Senja dengan Dua Kelelawar with Indonesian language learning in high school. This research is linguistic qualitative research with content analysis method. The data sources used are documents and informants. The sampling technique uses purposive sampling technique. Data collection techniques use scrutinize method and interview method. Data validity is done by theory triangulation and data source triangulation. Data analysis using interactive analysis techniques. The results of the study show: (1) cohesive devices found in drama script Senja dengan Dua Kelelawar covering grammatical cohesion with sub-types (a) pronouns, (b) recovery, and (c) lapse, lexical cohesion with subtitles (a) repetition, (b ) synonym, (c) hyponym, (d) meronym, and (e) collocation, and conjunction with sub-types (a) coordinative conjunctions, and (b) subordinate conjunctions. The most dominant elements are pronouns and conjunctions; (2) cohesion devices in drama scripts Senja dengan Dua Kelelawar have relevance to Indonesian language learning, especially material about the linguistic elements of text in 10<sup>th</sup> grade, 11<sup>th</sup> grade, and 12<sup>th</sup> grade high school.</em>

Discourse Analysis of Business Letters for the Construction and Maintenance of Fallu-ja Bridge between 1927-1929

The present study aims to identify and describe the function of grammatical cohesive devices utilized at the discourse level. Business letters for the construction and maintenance of Falluja bridge between 1927-1929 were analyzed to show the communicative functions of the grammatical cohesive devices. To this end, the study adoptedHallidayandHassan’s(1976)model of grammatical cohesion. The conclusions arrived at reflecting the discoursal value of the grammatical cohesive devices that contribute to the cohesion of the text achieving communicative functions in the text. The recurrence of grammatical cohesive devices reveals that the selected business letters are closely related to the value that they have in their communicative purposes.
 Keywords: Business Letters, Cohesion, Discourse analysis, Falluja Bridge, Text.

Cohesion and Coherence of Discourse in the Story of "Layangan Putus" on Social Media Facebook

This research is to find out how the use of cohesion and coherence in the story of "Layangan Putus", which was viral some time ago. Because cohesion and coherence are important criteria and principles in a text. This research is expected to contribute to the development of the quality of story writing. So the story can be understood and useful for the readers. Thus, the purpose of writing stories can inspire readers. The method used to analyze cohesion and coherence was a descriptive analysis seen in each paragraph. The cohesion aspects analyzed were lexical and grammatical cohesion aspects. The results of this study indicated that the story of "Layangan Putus" had aspects of lexical cohesion, grammatical cohesion, and coherence. Aspects of cohesion and constructive coherence in which discourse can convey a message to readers. In this way, the contents of the story can make the reader into feeling what the writer feel.

KOHESI GRAMATIKAL REFERENSI DALAM KOLEKSI CERITA PENDEK KOMPAS

This study aims to find reference grammatical cohesion forms used to construct narrative discourse. This research method is a descriptive method with qualitative research. Based on the results of data analysis it was found that the reference grammatical forms of cohesion found in the March 2015 edition of Kompas Sunday's short story collection included personal, demonstrative, and comparative references. The persona reference found is person reference I consists of aku, saya, ku-, -ku, kita, and kami. The persona II reference consists of kamu, kau, -mu, and kalian. As well as reference persona III consists of ia, dia, -nya, beliau, and mereka. The demonstrative form of grammatical cohesion is found in kini, sekarang, saat ini, kala itu, dulu, siang itu, sore itu, hari itu, hari ini, di sana, di sini, ke sana, ke mana, sana, ini, and itu. As well, a comparative form of grammatical cohesion found is seperti.

Grammatical Cohesion in Some Selected Political Texts

تهدف الدراسة الحالية الى بحث واحدة من اهم مقومات النص وهي التماسك النحوي وكيفية استخدام التماسك النحوي في النص السياسي . اضافة الى كيفية استثمار و استعمال التماسك النحوي من قبل السياسيين في نصوصهم السياسية . التحليل اظهر اهمية التماسك النحوي في النصوص السياسية المختارة ودورة في تماسك النص السياسي . عل اية حال, الدراسة هدفت لتحليل التماسك في النصوص السياسية المختارة وأهميتها في انسجام وتماسك النصوص تحت الدراسة.
 افترضت الدراسة بان التماسك والتماسك النحوي على وجه الخصوص موجود في النصوص السياسية تحت الدراسة من خلال استخدام السياسيين ادوات التماسك في خطاباتهم السياسية . النتائج الكلية اظهرت بان السياسيين في نصوصهم السياسية استعملوا اغلبية ادوات الانسجام النحوية ولكن كانت الاشارة وخصوصا الاشارة العامة هي الاكثر بروز في النص السياسي موضوع الدراسة وهذا يعود لان اغلبية السياسيين كانوا حذرين في خطابهم , ويأتي الربط في المرتبة الثانية وبعد ذلك الاختصار.

Reference: A Grammatical Cohesion In Seloka Journal Introduction Published by Semarang State University

Good writing is one that is cohesive especially in terms of reference. Cohesive is one of the essential textual components to create the organized and comprehensiveness of the texts. This study aims to investigate cohesion in six journal introduction sections written by post-graduate students at Semarang State University, West Java, Indonesia. This study used discourse analysis as an approach to analyzing grammatical cohesive devices. six journal introduction sections were chosen based on purposive sampling. The journal introduction sections were analyzed using Halliday and Matthiessen (2014) theory that contributing to the cohesion of the text, namely cohesive devices. The results of this study showed that post-graduate students at Semarang State University tend to use demonstrative references more frequently than the other grammatical cohesive devices. From 393 occurrences of grammatical cohesive devices presented in the six journal introduction sections, 322 of them were in the form of demonstrative reference. Through this article, the writer wants to help un English post-graduate students to have a better understanding of making introduction sections in their journal article.