1.4 The Goals of the Study
The goals of this study generally are to know how cohesive devices as linguistic tools works on students’ narrative text and how coherence of the
narrative text expressed through discourse analysis is. Here are the goals of the study in particular:
a. To elucidate what cohesive tiesare applied in composition of the seventh
semester student, English Department, Faculty of Letters, Jember University. b.
To investigate how cohesive ties creates texture to establish relation of meaning that build a coherence discourse in the narrative text of seventh
semester students, English Department, Faculty of Letters, Jember University. c.
To find possible relationship between the use of cohesive devices and the writing quality of seventh semester students, English Department, Faculty of
Letters, Jember University.
1.5 The Organization of the Thesis
The organization of this thesis is dividedinto five chapters. They are introduction, theoretical framework, research methodology, the result and
discussion, and conclusion. The first chapter illustrates the background of study, problem to discuss, research questions, the goals of study, and the
organization of the study. The second chapter consists of theoretical framework and theoretical review. The third chapter is the research
methodologies that explain the methods, data collecting, and analyzing data. The fourth chapter is about the result and discussion of the data analysis that
uses discourse analysis on seventh semester students’ English narrative. The last chapter, the fifth, is conclusion.
CHAPTER 2. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
This chapter consists of two sub chapters: the general view of previous researchers and theoretical framework. The general view of related studies tells
the reader about how previous researcher analyzed their data. Theoretical framework provides the theories that are used in this thesis in which, it will
support the analysis and data presentation.
2.1 Review of Related Studies
There are several researchers discussing grammatical and lexical cohesion as the tool to overcome the particular problem like the current study. They have their
ways and findings in analyzing the texts. The first research is journal written by Zhang 2004
entitled “Use of Cohesive Ties in Relation to The Quality of Composition by Chinese Colle
ge Students”. In this journal, he analyses the relation between the use of cohesive ties in relation to the quality of compositions
using Halliday and Hasan’s concept of cohesion and taxonomy of cohesive ties. The object of this research are a hundred sample of compositions that selected
systematically from 4845 compositions written by college non-English majors who took part in the 2004 National Entrance Test of English for M.AM.S. This
study is conducted to reveal that lexical synonymy LS and personal reference RP among the categories of cohesive ties were better predictors of the quality of
the students’ compositions. However, the result of this study suggests a weak relationship between the total number of the ties used and the composition scores.
Another research is journal by Ghasemi 2013 entitled “An Investigation into
the Use of Cohesive Devices in Second Language Writings”. This study reviewed some studies focusing on the use of cohesive devices and the relationship between
the numbers of cohesive devices and writing quality. The object of this research is collected data from different EFLESL researches. Halliday and Hasan’s
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