Grammatical Cohesion in Kompas Online News and Its Application as Teaching Materials for News Texts

Abstract

The goal of this research is to examine the form of grammatical cohesion in online news on Kompas.com and how it can be utilized to create news text teaching materials. The research method used was qualitative, and the subjects of this study are different types of grammatical cohesion in the news. Data was gathered through observation and documentation. Interactive analysis technique was used to analyze data. This study discovered grammatical cohesions consisting of: 7 references, 7 conjunctions, 7 substitutions, and 2 ellipses. The findings of this study were used as news text teaching materials in Class VII, Phase D of the Independent Curriculum for Junior High Schools (SMP). The Learning Objective achieved with this material is the 7.4.6: students deepen their knowledge of linguistic elements in explanatory news texts by carefully marking the types of sentences in the news text.