THE CONTRIBUTION OF LEXICAL COHESION TO THE TEXT COHESION IN EFL STUDENTS’ EXPOSITORY TEXTS
Journal Title: ELT in Focus - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
This study aims to investigate the use of lexical cohesion in students’ expository texts. It reveals the types of lexical cohesion employed by the students in their expository texts and the contribution of lexical cohesion to the text’ cohesion. This study employs qualitative research by using a case study design. Nine students of twelfth grade in a public senior high school in Kuningan regent, West Java, are chosen as the participants. The data in this study include the documents of students’ expository texts. The data are analyzed by using the concept of cohesive devices proposed by Halliday and Hasan (1976). The findings show that there are two lexical cohesions identified in nine students’ expository texts i.e. reiteration (covering i.e. antonymy, repetition, synonymy, meronymy, and hyponymy) and collocation. This study also indicates that lexical cohesion contribute to the process of keeping track of the participants and engaging the readers to the core argument of the text. Moreover, it can be stated that the contribution of lexical cohesion towards students’ expository texts is considered low. Therefore, there must be an encouragement for the students to use proper lexical cohesion to make their text more cohesive.
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Hanif Nurcholish Adiantika
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