A coherent text consists of interrelated clauses which move smoothly one for another.įrom the significance of the writing, I was inspired and interested to conduct a research which investigate the cohesion and coherence of the students’ texts with my own reasons. Coherence plays an important role in making a text read well. The writer needs to keep his/ her readers well informed about where he/ she is and where he/ she is going (Butt et al., 1995: 90). Coherence is very crucial for a student in that he/ she can organize the text into a coherent whole. Meanwhile, the cohesive ties is not sufficient to create a coherent text (Stotsky, 1983) cited in Wang (2007: 164). It can be achieved by cohesive ties which depends upon lexical and grammatical relationship that allow sentence sequences to be understood as connected discourese rather than as autonomous sentences (Witte & Faigley, 2008). To distinguish the difference between a text and non-text, we have to see whether the text has texture or not.
A text is not only characterized by its size or length. The product of writing is a text eventhough a text can be both in spoken and written forms (Halliday, 1976:1). Literacy means that the students can use their language for communicative purposes (Paltridge, 2001:4). Being able to write well in English means that the students are literate. We, English teachers, have objectives in teaching writing in order that the students can write compositions well. There are many cases in which both teachers and students have difficulties in producing good compositions.
Teaching writing of English as foreign language in the foreign language classroom is a challenging job to do. It is because writing requires the students to meet some conditions by which they can write well. Writing is one of the four skills in English considered as the most difficult skill compared to other skills, namely speaking, listening and reading by most students, even teachers. The objective of the research is to find out cohesion and coherence of the students texts
Cohesion and Coherence of the Students Texts and Its Implication for Teaching Writing of Text Types in English
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