THE REALIZATION OF COHESION IN READING TEXTS USED IN CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL IN THE CLASSROOM
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Studi ini bertujuan untuk mencari penerapan dari grammar dan lexical cohesive pada buku “Chicken Soup for The Soul in classroom”. 10 teks dipilih dalam penelitian ini dan dianalisa melalui pendekatan deskriptif. Teori kohesi dari Halliday dan Hasan 91976) digunakan untuk menganalisa teks. Studi menunjukan bahwa referensi mempunyai frekuensi tertinggi pada occurrence, diikuti lexical, konjungsi, ellipsis, dan substitusi. Personal reference dan temporal konjungsi sering ditemukan pada teks yang mengindikasikan bahwa teks bergebre recount. Berdasarkan analisis qualitative, dutemukan bahwa teks bersifat kohesif karena level dari kohesif yang mencapai 95%. Dari temuan, dapat disimpulkan bahwateks memenuhi criteria baik dan dapat digunakan sebagai alternative untuk pengajaran recount teks bagi siswa.
This study aims at finding out the realization of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in reading texts from the book entitled “Chicken Soup for the Soul in the Classroom”. The ten reading texts were selected as the corpus of the study. They were then analyzed using qualitative descriptive approach. The theory of cohesion proposed by Halliday and Hasan (1976) was used as framework for analyzing the texts. The result of the study shows that reference had the highest frequency of occurrences. Then it was followed by lexical, conjunction, ellipsis, and substitution. Personal reference and temporal conjunction most frequently occurred in the texts. Therefore, it can be concluded that the texts belong to recount texts. Based on the qualitative analysis, it was found out that the texts are considered to be cohesive because the level of cohesiveness are very high, i.e. more than 95%. From the result of the study, it can be concluded that the texts fulfill the requirements of becoming a good text and they can be used as alternative material for teaching recount texts for Indonesian students.
This study aims at finding out the realization of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in reading texts from the book entitled “Chicken Soup for the Soul in the Classroom”. The ten reading texts were selected as the corpus of the study. They were then analyzed using qualitative descriptive approach. The theory of cohesion proposed by Halliday and Hasan (1976) was used as framework for analyzing the texts. The result of the study shows that reference had the highest frequency of occurrences. Then it was followed by lexical, conjunction, ellipsis, and substitution. Personal reference and temporal conjunction most frequently occurred in the texts. Therefore, it can be concluded that the texts belong to recount texts. Based on the qualitative analysis, it was found out that the texts are considered to be cohesive because the level of cohesiveness are very high, i.e. more than 95%. From the result of the study, it can be concluded that the texts fulfill the requirements of becoming a good text and they can be used as alternative material for teaching recount texts for Indonesian students.
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Rohmawati, I. (1). THE REALIZATION OF COHESION IN READING TEXTS USED IN CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL IN THE CLASSROOM. English Education Journal, 2(2). Retrieved from http://journal.unnes.ac.id/sju/eej/article/view/676
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Bachman, P. 1996. Communicative Competence: A Content Specified Model. Modern Language Journal. Vol. 6:7-8.
Behjat, Fatemeh. 2009. Non-Structural Cohesive Devices in English Novels and Their Corresponding Persian Translations. Journal of Teaching English as a Foreign Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch. Vol. 1(3):107-118. (retrieved on December 23rd 2011 from http://www.sid.ir/en/VEWSSID/J_pdf/1018220090307.pdf)
Bogdan, R. C.and Biklen, S. K.. 1998. Qualitative Research in Education. London: Allyn and Bacon.
Canale, M. and Swain, M. 1980. Theoretical Bases of Communicative Approaches to Second Language Teaching and Testing. Applied Linguistics. I (1): 1-47. (retrieved on September 12th 2011 from http://applij.oxfordjournals.org/content/I/1/1.full.pdf)
Canfield, J. et al. 2007. Chicken Soup for the Soul in the Classroom: High School Edition Grades 9-12. Florida: Health Communication, Inc.
Character Education Partnership (CEP). Character Education. http://www.freedomforum.org/publications/first/findingcommonground/b13. charactered.pdf. (retrieved on May 19th 2012)
Davies, F. et al. 1995. Introducing Reading. London: Penguin Books.
Halliday, M.A.K. and Hasan, R. 1976. Cohesion in English. London: Longman
Halliday, M.A.K. and Hasan, R. 1985. Language, Context, and Text: Aspect of Language in a Social Semiotic Perspective. Melbourne: Deakin University Press.
Halliday, M.A.K. 1994. An Introduction to Functional Grammar. London: Edward Arnold.
Martin, J.R. and D. Rose. 2003. Working With Discourse; Meaning beyond the Clause. Sydney: Copyright JR Martin and David Rose.
Mokrani, M. L. R. 2009. Reference as a Device of Grammatical Cohesion in English Narrative and Its Translation into Arabic. A Dissertation. Constatine: Mentouri University. (retrieved on January 5th 2012 on http://bu.umc.edu.dz/theses/anglais/MOK1175.pdf)
Murcia, M. C. et al, 1995. Communicative Competence: A Pedagogically Motivated Model with Content Specifications. Issues in Applied Linguistics. Vol. 6:10-11. (retrieved on September 12th 2011 from http://escholarship.ucop.edu/uc/item/2928w4zj)
Narvaez, D & Daniel K. L. Teaching Moral Character: Two Strategies for Teacher Education. http://www.nd.edu/~dnarvaez/documents/ NarvaezLapsleyTeacher.pdf. (retrieved on May 19th 2012)
Nhung, N. T. T. 2010. An Analysis of Prominent Grammatical Cohesive Devices in Online News Discourse in English by Vietnamese Translators. VNU Journal of Science & Foreign Languages. Vol. 26:51-59. (retrieved on December 23rd 2011 from http://tainguyenso.vnu.edu.vn/jspui/bitstream/123456789/11276/1/7.pdf)
Patton, M. Q. 1980. Qualitative Evaluation Methods. London: SAGE publications Ltd.
Rukmini, D. 2010. Evaluating A Text for A Model. Semarang: Unnes Press.
Susanti, R. 2007. The Grammatical Cohesion of Reading Text of Year Seven Junior High School Textbook “Smart Steps” Published by Ganeca Exact. A Final Project. Semarang: State University of Semarang.
Utomo, S. 2000. Cohesion of Reading Texts used in English Textbook for the first term, second year of Senior High School. A Thesis. Semarang: Graduate Program, State University of Semarang.
Yeh, C. 2004. The Relationship of Cohesion and Coherence. A Contrastive Study of English and Chinese. Journal of Language and Linguistics. Vol. 3(2): 243-260. (retrieved on December 23rd 2011 from http://www.jllonline.co.uk/journal/3_2/yeh3_2.pdf)