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

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