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

ABSTRACT Saputra, Daeng Farhan Kurniawan (2019): “An Analysis of Lexical Cohesion Types Used in The Discussion Section of Thesis by English Study Program Students at Bengkulu University”. English Education Study Program, faculty of Teachers Training and Education. 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