GRAMMATICAL COHESIVE DEVICES FOUND IN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS WRITTEN BY THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AT IAIN TULUNGAGUNG

RAHMAWATI, DENI (2015) GRAMMATICAL COHESIVE DEVICES FOUND IN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS WRITTEN BY THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AT IAIN TULUNGAGUNG. [ Skripsi ]

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ABSTRACT Rahmawati, Deni, Student Registered Number 3213113008. 2015. Grammatical Cohesive Devices Found in Argumentative Essays Written by the Fourth Semester Students of English Education Department at IAIN Tulungagung. Sarjana Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: Arina Shofiya, M.Pd. Keywords: Grammatical Cohesive Devices, Argumentative Essays From all of four language skills, writing is defined as active skill or productive skill where the language users actually have to produce language themselves. Cohesion is one important thing to take into account in writing. In creating cohesive writing papers, cohesive devices have significant role because they provide not only surface evidence for the text unity but also express the continuity that exists between one part of the text and another. Students, such as the fourth semester of English Education Department at IAIN Tulungagung, are expected to have a good ability to make good writing in order to produce academic writing such as essay writing. Therefore, they should pay much attention in using cohesive devices in their writing in the hope to make a cohesive writing. Analyzing the kinds of grammatical cohesive devices that students use to write an essay could be very helpful in any purposes for the lecturers and students can be a valuable input about the theory of grammatical cohesive devices in a text. Thus, it was necessary to uncover the kinds of grammatical cohesive devices that students used in their essay writing. Research problem of this study were: 1) What are the types of grammatical cohesive devices found in essays written by the fourth semester students of IAIN Tulungagung? 2) What is the frequency of occurrence of each type of grammatical cohesive devices (reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction) used in essays written by the fourth semester students of IAIN Tulungagung? The purpose of this study were: 1) To find and describe the grammatical cohesive devices found in essays written by the fourth semester students of IAIN Tulungagung. 2) To identify the frequency of occurrence of each type of grammatical cohesive devices (reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction) used in essays written by the fourth semester students of IAIN Tulungagung. This research used quantitative approach with descriptive design. It also used stratified random sampling as the sampling technique, documentation as the data collecting method, and content analysis technique as the way in analyzing the data. This study found that there were 1159 grammatical cohesive devices used by 23 students in writing their essays. 589 or 50, 81% were the use of conjunction. Then, 563 or 48, 58 % were the use of reference. The next, 7 or 0, 6 % the use of substitution, and the last is 0 use of ellipsis. The students tend to use conjunction and reference than substitution or ellipsis was based on their prior knowledge and experiences to use such devices. viii In later, the reader especially English Education Department students to be aware about grammatical cohesive devices used in spoken and written discourse to avoid misinterpretation. Then, for the researchers who have the same interest in the study of grammatical cohesive devices can compare their research, in order to cover the weakness of this research.

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