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标题：Coherence in Students’ Analytical Exposition Texts
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作者：Nur Aeni Afiati Mafuroh ; Nur Aeni Afiati Mafuroh ; Yusnita Sylvia Ningrum 等
期刊名称：ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching
电子版ISSN：2252-6706
出版年度：2019
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：86-100
DOI：10.15294/elt.v8i1.26747
语种：English
出版社：Universitas Negeri Semarang
摘要：This study aims to reveal the coherence of 19 analytical exposition texts written by the fourth semester students of English Department of UNNES through analysis of schematic structure, thematic choices, and thematic development. Coherence is an essential component to create a make-sense text. Thus, it is very important to know the students’ competency in writing a good text. This study applied a qualitative approach. It employed theories of schematic structure based on stages proposed by Gerot and Wignell (1995), thematic choices from Gerot and Wignell (1995) and thematic development by Eggins (2004). The findings indicated that students preferably used topical Theme (67.79%) and textual Theme (30.42%). In addition, in terms of thematic development, Theme Reiteration is the most common pattern applied by the students. Based on the findings, students’ texts were less coherence because there were several texts having an incomplete thesis at the beginning of the paragraph and one text leaving 1 out of 3 stages of exposition text. Furthermore, the over-use of Theme Reiteration might show that the students’ writing skill is low because they could not elaborate their ideas through various methods. Therefore, it is suggested that the students should learn how to organize their ideas into a coherent analytical exposition text.
关键词：analytical exposition; coherence; schematic structure; thematic choices; thematic development