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1.3 Research Problems
In order to focus on the study, I will limit the discussion of this final project by presenting these following problems:
1 What Thematic structures are displayed in the 3
rd
semester students‟ speeches?
2 What Thematic progressions are employed in the 3
rd
semester students‟ speeches?
1.4 Purposes of the Study
The purposes of the study are: 1
to analyse the Thematic structures displayed in the 3
rd
semester students‟ speeches.
2 to analyse the Thematic progressions employed in the 3
rd
semester students speeches.
1.5 Significance of the Study
By conducting this study, I expect that: 1
Theoretically, the study may be able to show to public speakers, in this case university students, that they should focus on the organization of the
text since the point of departure Theme in the beginning of the clause will decide what a clause is going to be about, and how it is developed in
the rest of the clause. In larger context, students also need to concern how clauses are systemically developed and support each other in a text.
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In addition, this study provides me, as the writer, further knowledge about discourse analysis, especially textual meaning.
2 Practically, especially for the students of English Department as the
future teachers, the result of this study will give knowledge that can be used as the bases to describe how the EFL students organize their ideas
in a text to produce coherent and cohesive text, so the teachers are able to improve students‟ language skills, especially speaking. Moreover, I
can take advantages of this research by applying textual meaning in this writing so that this research can be coherence and cohesive.
3 Pedagogically, the study can provide some references for the readers to
use Thematic structures and Thematic progressions to unveil the textual meaning in a spoken or written text. By this study, further research about
textual meaning is expected to be conducted, as well.
1.6 Limitation of the Study
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