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GRAMMATICAL COHESION ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS THESIS WRITING
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Grammatical Cohesion AnalysisEducationPsycholinguisticsMorphology (Linguistics)Syntactic StructureLanguage LearningLinguistic TheoryUsedintheirthesiswritingandhowthese DevicesApplied LinguisticsSecond Language AcquisitionSyntaxLanguage AcquisitionGrammarLanguage StudiesWriting InstructionVice Versa.fromtheEnglish WritingCohesive Discourse.inthisstudyLinguistics
Thisresearchaimedtofindouttypesof grammaticalcohesive devicesstudentsmostly usedintheirthesiswritingandhowthese devices create cohesive discourse.Inthisstudy, researcher applieddescriptive case study asformofresearch.Theobjectsofthisresearchwereresearch backgroundpartof10theseswriting writtenby studentsofEnglish EducationStudy Program.Thedatarevealedthatstudentscouldproduce varioustypesofgrammaticaldevices.Themajority ofdevicesusedbythe studentswerereferentialcohesive devicesandconjunctive cohesive devices with 82.25% and 17.12% respectively. Other types-substitution and ellipsis-contributedonly0.24%and0.39%,respectively.Inmany cases, studentstendedtomisuse singular pronounwhilereferencingpluralobjects or vice versa.Fromthe total1273grammaticalcohesive devicesused, studentssomehowadequatelymasterusinggrammaticaldevicesby only usinginappropriately74(5.81%) ofthem.