Thematic Progression Analysis in Indonesian Efl Students� Thesis Abstracts

Rahmawati, Rika Vennia; Kurniawan, Eri

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“…The lack of patterns in the texts might be because the students, as beginner English learners and writers, do not have a clue how to make the information in a clause connect to other clauses. The lack of theme progression in a text makes it less developed and disconnected (Rahmawati & Kurniawan, 2015).…”

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An Analysis of Cohesion and Coherence of Descriptive Texts Written by Junior High School Students

Zahra¹,

Emilia²,

Nurlaelawati³

2021

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)

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The study aims to investigate the cohesion and coherence of descriptive texts written by seventh grade junior high school students. This study was conducted in the even semester of the 2019/2020 academic year during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study used a qualitative case study design, and the data were obtained from six texts representing high, middle, and low achiever students. To identify the texts' cohesion and coherence, the grammar of textual metafunction from systemic functional linguistics (SFL), that is the theme system was used. The findings show that all students had the ability to make descriptive texts in terms of cohesion and coherence. All texts successfully used different types of themes, including topical and textual themes, and thematic progression, including the zigzag and reiteration patterns to create coherence especially at the clause level. Various cohesive devices such as reference, conjunction, lexical, and ellipsis were also used to create a cohesive text. It was also found that the texts written by high achiever students were more coherent than the texts written by middle and low achiever students due to several aspects such as the more diverse pattern and the more frequent use of pattern. In addition, the high and middle achiever texts seemed more cohesive than the low achiever texts due to the high number of cohesive devices used in the middle achiever texts, and high number of conjunctions used in the middle and high achiever texts. Based on the findings, more support is needed from teachers when teaching descriptive text to middle and low achiever students, especially in a pandemic era.

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An Analysis of Cohesion and Coherence of Descriptive Texts Written by Junior High School Students

Zahra¹,

Emilia²,

Nurlaelawati³

2021

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)

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“…It is clearly stated that the aforementioned studies focus merely on English language text [3][4][5]7]. Nonetheless, Indonesian language (Bahasa Indonesia) text, which is important, is not investigated yet.…”

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“…A detailed findings of themes are described below,  Text 1 is comprised of forty nine (49) T-Units. Then, textual and interpersonal theme have the similar number of occurrences (3). Topical theme is the most dominant theme in the text which is divided into marked and unmarked, (9) and (19) respectively.…”

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“…Studies on thematic progression have been conducted by many scholars. Rahmawati & Kurniawan investigated thematic progression on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context, specifically in the thesis [3]. The findings revealed that most of Indonesian EFL students used constant theme in their thesis abstract.…”

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“…The findings revealed that most of Indonesian EFL students used constant theme in their thesis abstract. There is also the study of TP focusing on thesis abstract [3]. He reported that TP within rhetorical structure plays an essential role as a technique of writing opinion text.…”

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Thematic Progression Patterns in Indonesian Opinion Articles

Nasrulloh¹

2019

Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)

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Thematic progression plays a crucial role in the notion of cohesiveness and coherence in the text, particularly in opinion text. This study was intended to seek the theme and thematic progression patterns in the context of Indonesian opinion articles. To achieve the objective, Halliday theory was applied to identify the theme and thematic progression patterns. The method of this study is the combination between quantitative and qualitative method. The data was taken from Kompas.id, an online version newspaper. The findings revealed that topical theme is the most commonly used by the writer in the opinion articles. In terms of thematic progression (TP), the linear, theme pattern is dominantly found in Bahasa Indonesia opinion articles. As a result, this study might greatly contribute to the writing skill, particularly to those who wants to compose an opinion text cohesively in Bahasa Indonesia, not only for Indonesian but also for foreign learners who wants to learn Bahasa Indonesia.

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An interest-driven creator English course for developing Chinese private college students’ listening and speaking proficiency under a blended setting

Wang,

Chen

2024

Asian. J. Second. Foreign. Lang. Educ.

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The primary objective of this study is to enhance the English language proficiency of undergraduate students pursuing bachelor's degree programs. This is achieved through the development of a mandatory English course based on Interest-driven creator (IDC) principles within a blended learning environment. The IDC course was implemented over a 16-week period, consisting of 16 lessons, at a private college in China. To evaluate the impact of this course, a quasi-experimental design was employed to analyse the language learning outcomes. The performance of two groups, the experimental group (EG) and the control group (CG), was assessed using the Exam English (standardized according to CEFR) as both a pretest and posttest measure. Additionally, a semi-structured interview was conducted to gather valuable insights into the students' learning experiences. The findings of this study indicate that the blended learning approach effectively improved the students' English proficiency in listening and speaking.

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Thematic Progression Analysis in Indonesian Efl Students� Thesis Abstracts

Cited by 15 publications

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An Analysis of Cohesion and Coherence of Descriptive Texts Written by Junior High School Students

An Analysis of Cohesion and Coherence of Descriptive Texts Written by Junior High School Students

Thematic Progression Patterns in Indonesian Opinion Articles

An interest-driven creator English course for developing Chinese private college students’ listening and speaking proficiency under a blended setting

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