AN ANALYSIS OF REITERATION IN THESIS DISCUSSION SECTION USED BY ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM STUDENTS AT UNIVRSITAS BENGKULU

SN, Aufa Rizki Nadya and Safnil, Safnil and Bambang, suwarno (2020) AN ANALYSIS OF REITERATION IN THESIS DISCUSSION SECTION USED BY ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM STUDENTS AT UNIVRSITAS BENGKULU. Undergraduated thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

The type of this research is content analysis research. It is aimed to find out how the students used lexical cohesion especially reiteration based on frequent and anaphoric and cataphoric types in the thesis discussion section. The objects of this study are 10 theses which conducted by English Department undergraduate students who graduated in December 2019 at Bengkulu University. In this research, the researcher collected the data by using checklist. Then, there were several steps in collecting the data which was known as codifying each thesis in the corpus with TD-1 until TD-10, reading each paragraph of thesis discussion, selecting the words related to the theory, classifying the words and counting the frequent based on the most reiteration and cataphoric and anaphoric used, and conclude the conclusion and suggestion. Based on the data, the researcher gets the result that there are 665 reiteration items found in 10 theses discussion section that used as research object. It was divided into six types named Partly Repetition, Full Repetition, Synonym, Near Synonym, Hyponym, and Superordinate. They were categorized by Halliday and Hasan’s theory and supporting theory by Paltridge. Besides that, the researcher also found that Partly Repetition is frequently used in thesis discussion with 255 times and they mostly used cataphoric types with 561 times. Keywords : reiteration,anaphoric,cataphoric

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