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An Analysis Of Grammatical Cohesion Of Descriptive Text For The Seventh Year Students Of Smpn 9 Pekanbaru
Abstract: This research aims to find out the grammatical cohesion of
descriptive texts of students’ textbook “When English Rings A Bell” for the
Seventh Year Students of Junior High School published by Pusat Kurikulum and
Perbukuan Kemendikbud. This research uses a descriptive qualitative research.
This method was pointed out to obtain clear description of the object based on
the actual fact and valid data. The technique of analysis involved agglomerating,
identifying, counting and making interpretation. The writer uses M.A.K Halliday
and Hasan’s theory to analyze the types of grammatical cohesion. Based on the
result of investigation that the writer has done, the grammatical cohesion of
descriptive texts of English textbook "When English Rings a Bell" is cohesive
text in “poor” categorize, since the rate of the percentage is 22.1%. It can be
concluded that “When English Rings a Bell” textbook is less of cohesive device.
It is suggested that grammatical cohesion in a text has important role as stated by
Hasan (1968) cohesion occurs in a text if it has texture. In other words, a text is
cohesive when the stretches of language are hung together with ties and give it
meaning.
Keywords: Analysis, Grammatical Cohesion, Descriptive Text
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