Grammatical Cohesion on The Students’ Narrative Writing

Abstract

This study deals with an analysis of grammatical cohesion on the students’ narrative writing. The objectives of this study were to find out the types of grammatical cohesion that are used on the students’ narrative writing and to derive the dominant types of grammatical cohesion on the students’ narrative writing. The writer took narrative text written by senior high school grade XI. As the data class consisted of 24 students. The researcher took all the students writing as the source of the data. This research was conducted by using qualitative research. They were four types of grammatical cohesion, namely (1) reference, (2) substitution, (3) ellipsis and (4) conjunction. The findings of this study showed that all types of grammatical cohesion are used and can be found on the students’ narrative writing. The total number of grammatical cohesion is 358 (282 occurrences of reference, 4 occurrence of substitution, 3 occurrences of ellipsis and 69 occurrence of conjunction). Based on the number of grammatical cohesion on the students writing it was derived that the most dominant types of grammatical cohesion on the students narrative writing were reference, that is 282