An Anelysis of Grammatical and Lexical Cohesion of Reading Texts of the Twelfth Grade of Senior High School 2013 Curriculum of English Textbook Published by National Education Department.

Abstrak / Ringkasan

Reading text is a definite as the cognitive process of understanding a
written linguistic message. To be regarded as a good reading text, the language
used in the textbook must be held together cohesively so, it is easy for reader or
hearer to understand tle text. This study investigates the kinds of grammatical and
lexical cohesion that appears in the reading text of twelfth Senior High School.
The objective of this study is to find out the dominant qpe of grammatical and
lexical cohesion in the reading texts. This research is designed as a qualitative
research because the data that the researcher attempted to observe was finding
$ammatical and lexical cohesion in reading text and using describtion in
collected t}re data. The data were collected from reading texts of twetfth Grade of
Senior High School Curriculum 2013 English Textbook Published by National
Education Departrnent. Writter administered two steps before analyzing the text,
such as selecting the English book and selecting the reading text. The result ofthis
study shows that the four forms of grammatical cohesion and two forms of lexical
cohesion appear in the text. They are reference (48.63%), substitution (7.07%),
ellipsis (10.70%), and conjuncti on (19.28%). The two forms of lexical cohesion
were reiteration (8.13%) and collocation (6.19%). However, the most dominant
cohesion used in the text is grammatical cohesion. This was the highest number
wich percentage of 85.68%o.

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