An Analysis the Use of Cohesive Devices In Recount Text by Eighth Grade Junior High School Students’
Keywords:
Cohesive Devices, Recount Text, Cohesion, Text CohesivenessAbstract
The goal of this study is to find out the cohesive devices used in the recount texts by eighth grade junior high school students and to investigate the use of cohesive devices in their recount texts. This study used Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) as the method. And as many as 50 texts were studied using Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) cohesion framework. This study was conducted at one of Indonesia's public junior high schools located in Subang. This study reveals that references (52.19%) are the most commonly used cohesive devices in students' texts, followed by conjunction (27.70%), lexical cohesion (19.5%), ellipsis (0.4%), and substitution (0.3%). Furthermore, incorrect use of cohesive devices was discovered, with omission accounting for the majority of errors (50.7%), followed by redundant repetition (26.7%), misuse (12%), and unnecessary addition (10.7%). These errors showed that most conjunctions and references were omitted, and repetition was redundantly utilized. These indicate that, while the students are skilled at creating cohesive recount texts, they still lack interlingual and intralingual skill, exposure to the English language, and experience confusion when using cohesive devices. Teachers must provide adequate knowledge about text cohesiveness as well as more practice and feedback to train students' language transfer skills.
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