Writer / NIM
SITI INDRIYATI NANI / 321413135
Study Program
S1 - PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS
Advisor 1 / NIDN
INDRI WIRAHMI BAY, S.Pd, M.A / 0020088002
Advisor 2 / NIDN
FAHRIA MALABAR, S.Pd, M.A / 0005068601
Abstract
Abstract
Siti Indriyati Nani. 321 413 135. 2017. "Grammatical Cohesion Errors in University Students' Descriptive Text" Undergraduated Thesis. Department of English Language Education, Faculty of Letters and Culture, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo. The first advisor is IndryWirahmi Bay, S.Pd, M.A and second advisor is Fahria Malabar, S.Pd.,M.Pd
This study aims at identify and describe types of grammatical cohesion errors in university students' descriptive text. This study applied qualitative descriptive as the research method. The object of this study is undergraduate students of department of English Language education, sixth semester, class of 2014, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo. To collect the data, the researcher conducted test in which the students were asked to write three descriptive texts. There were 63 descriptive texts written by 21 students and only 27 texts which required as the data written by nine students. In analyzing the data, the researcher used some theories that relevant to this study. These theories are theory of cohesion, theory of error analysis and theory of descriptive text. As the result of this study, this research found errors in using reference as the dominant error found, they are demonstrative reference and personal reference, meanwhile there were no errors in using comparative reference. Errors in using conjunction also found in university students' descriptive text particularly errors in using additive conjunctions which are highly found than the others types of conjunction.
Keywords: Grammatical Cohesion, Error Analysis, and Descriptive Text
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