AN ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL COHESION TYPES USED IN THE DISCUSSION SECTION OF THESIS BY ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM STUDENTS AT BENGKULU UNIVERSITY

The type of this research is Descriptive Qualitative Quantitative research. It is
aimed to find out types of lexical cohesion used in the thesis discussion section
and to know what is the most dominant lexical cohesion types used in the thesis
discussion section. The objects of this study are 20 theses which conducted by
English Department undergraduate students who graduated in August 2017 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-20, reading each
paragraph of thesis discussion, selecting the words related to the theory, classifying the words and counting the percentage of cohesion based lexical
cohesion, and conclude the conclusion and suggestion. Based on the data, the
researcher gets the result that there are 997 lexical items found in 20 theses
discussion section that used as research object. It was divided into six types
named Repetition, Synonym, Antonym, Hyponym, Meronym and Collocation. They were categorized by Halliday and Hasan’s theory and supporting theory by
Paltridge. Besides that, the researcher also found that the most dominant type of
lexical item used by the thesis author is Repetition with 691 times from total of
lexical cohesion in these theses discussion section
Keywords: Lexical Cohesion, Thesis, Discussion Section