Analysing Cohesion Device of Monologue Texts in Students’ Text Book for Eight Grade in Academic Year 2017/2018

Abstract

Cohesive term deals with the unity of paragraph or passage that relates between sections of a text or speech. This study aimed to describe the types of cohesive devices that were mostly used and also to find out which one is the most cohesive text among students’ texts book (When English Rings a Bell) for Junior High School at Eight grade in the academic year of 2017/2018. The primary data of this study was monologue texts that are found in students’ texts book for Junior High School at Eight grade in the academic year of 2017/2018. This study used a qualitative approach; First, the data were analyzed by to divide and numbering sentences into clauses; The second, to put the number of cohesive devices into tables based on types; The third, to put the number of cohesive devices into the form of percentage; The last, to make an interpretation based on the result. The objective findings are three kinds of cohesive; those were reference, ellipsis, and conjunction. Then, most of the cohesive device was a reference, personal reference, which mostly realized in every single clause, then followed by the conjunction "additive and adversative." This study was practically implicated to teaching and learning which can introduce functions and samples of cohesive to their students in order that students knew and then utilized its concept in their writing.