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Employing Social Media in Text-Based InstructionAJHSSR Journal
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rather than texts that are motivating and more immediately relevant to learners’ lives. This paper proposes the
use of social media platforms, in particular Instagram, as a way to make the utilization of Text-Based Instruction
more meaningful to students.
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1) The study investigated Thai EFL students' perceptions of an academic reading class that incorporated contextualized grammar instruction.
2) A questionnaire and interviews found that most students found the course contents, such as analyzing sentences and locating main ideas, to be beneficial. Contextualized grammar exercises helped them understand how sentences form overall meanings.
3) Students also reported that effective learning strategies and supportive teaching helped them realize that contextualized grammar instruction is useful for improving English academic reading abilities.
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This study compared the effects of semantically related and unrelated word lists on Iranian EFL learners' short-term and long-term vocabulary recognition and retention. Sixty elementary students were divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group learned words from semantically related lists while the control group learned from unrelated lists. Immediate and delayed vocabulary tests showed that the control group performed better on the immediate test, while the experimental group performed significantly better on the delayed test. The results suggest that semantically related word lists may facilitate better long-term vocabulary retention compared to unrelated lists.
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1. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 7 No. 3, January 2018, pp. 515-523
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AN ANLYSIS OF COHESION OF EXPOSITION TEXTS:
AN INDONESIAN CONTEXT
Emi Emilia1
Nurfitri Habibi 2
Lungguh Ariang Bangga3
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia and Ministry of Education and Culture, Indonesia1
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia2
The University of Sydney, Australia3
emilia@upi.edu1
; nurfitrihabibi@gmail.com2
; lungguhariang@gmail.com3
First received: 23 February 2017 Final proof received: 21 January 2018
Abstract
The paper reports on the results of a study aiming to investigate the cohesion of exposition texts
written by eleventh graders of a school in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The study used a
qualitative case study research design, especially text analysis, involving 32 students. In the interest
of space, the paper will present the data obtained from six texts written by 6 students, representing
low, mid, and high achievers. The texts were analyzed using systemic functional linguistics (SFL),
especially in terms of schematic structure and linguistic features, especially those contributing to the
cohesion of the texts, such as Theme progression and cohesive devices. The results show that all
texts show students’ grasp and understanding of the schematic structure of an exposition, including
thesis, argument, and restatement of the thesis. All texts also successfully use the zig-zag and the
Theme reiteration patterns, which indicate the students’ emerging capacity to create a text with
cohesion at the clause level. However, only texts written by high achievers employ the multiple
Theme pattern, indicating the students’ emerging capacity to create a text with better sense of
connectedness, unity, and flow of information at the global level. High achiever texts also employ
discourse features which allow the reader to predict how the text will unfold and guide them to a line
of understanding of a text as a whole. Moreover, in terms of cohesive devices, all texts use some
simple cohesive devices—reference, lexical cohesion, and conjunction. It should be mentioned that
all texts are rudimentary with some inappropriate word choices and grammatical problems. This
suggests that the students still needed more guidance and time to do research on the topic in focus, to
go through the process of writing as professional do, to allow them to create a better text with more
elaboration and characteristics of written language with consistency and accuracy. It is recommended
that further research on different perspectives and foci of analysis of different text types using
systemic functional linguistics, with more representative samples, and studies on the teaching of
writing be conducted.
Keywords: cohesion, exposition text, schematic structure, thematic progression, systemic functional
linguistics (SFL)
In all educational levels, students are required to
engage with many texts. In primary school, the
typical texts they encounter are related to stories
(Martin & Rose, 2008). As they move to the higher
level of education—secondary school—the texts
they encounter during their study are getting more
complex. In secondary school, students’
accomplishment in fulfilling advanced literacy
tasks, as Schleppegrell (2004) suggests, is indicated
by the way they use language to construct more
condensed and specific information from their
surroundings that is different from their everyday
pattern of interaction at home or in the
neighborhood. Such condensed and specific
information can be realized into various types of
texts, one of which is exposition.
In Indonesia, all students in senior high school
are expected to have the capacity to comprehend
and to write exposition texts, as stipulated in the
2013 English Curriculum (Ministry of Education
Regulation, No. 64 Year 2013). Such policy goes
with the salient point of writing an exposition text
for students’ academic success and their effective
social participation (Crowhurst, 1990; Knapp &
Watkins, 2005). The ability to compose
argumentative text (including exposition), as Bizzel
(1992 as cited in Emilia, 2005) argues, can help
develop students’ critical thinking which can
eventually lead the students to be powerful and
competitive individuals.
However, to write an exposition text is not
easy for EFL students. Common problems found in
composing an exposition text are misuses of
cohesive devices, as reported by Chen (2008). For
Indonesian EFL students, the exposure to such an
argumentative genre is still limited in both their
doi: 10.17509/ijal.v7i3.9791
2. Emilia, Habibi , and Bangga, A analysis of cohesion of exposition text: An Indonesian context
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native tongue and English. Many Indonesian
students, based on the writers’ observation in the
classroom, struggle to write an effective exposition
text, especially to employ the textual resources—
theme progression and cohesive links—in the text.
This condition may lead to different understanding
of how they should construct an effective exposition
text in English. Regarding this, Hawes and Thomas
(2012) point out that there would be any particular
differences between the structure of the exposition
text in their first language and the one written in
English, especially with regard to the use of textual
resources that include the use of Theme progression
and cohesive links to create an effective text with a
good flow of information (Droga & Humphrey, 2003;
Derewianka & Jones, 2012 for a similar discussion).
Studies on the use of cohesive devices in EFL
students’ texts have shown that students still
encountered some problems in using appropriate
cohesive devices. Students tend to focus on the word
or clause level rather than the whole discourse level
(Ferris & Hedgecock, 1998 as cited in Lee, 2002) in
creating an exposition text. The problem was also
found in more recent studies conducted by Chen
(2008), Witte and Faigley (2008), Azzouz (2009),
Dastjerdi and Samian (2011), Sanczyk (2010), Ong
(2011), and Sidighi and Heydari (2012). They
reported that there were still some problems of
cohesive devices employment in an argumentative
genre written by EFL students, leading to the failure
of shaping an effective flow of information. As far
as the flow of information is concerned, utilizing
cohesive analysis has several advantages. The
development of cohesive devices in students’ texts
has a significant impact on the writing quality
(Crossley, Kyle and McNamara, 2016). In addition,
cohesive analysis plays an important role in
identifying specific ways of discourse features
which guide the reader to a line of understanding of
a text as a whole (Bastrukmen & von Randow,
2014). Based on the previous elaboration of the
importance of cohesive devices in argumentative
writing, this study aims to investigate the cohesion
of students’ exposition texts, seen from the
schematic structure, and linguistic features,
especially to do with Theme progression, and
cohesive devices.
This study has been informed mainly by
systemic functional linguistics, especially to do with
cohesion, and exposition. Those theories will be
delineated below.
Systemic functional linguistics is a social
theory of language developed by Halliday (1994).
SFL holds the principle that all languages have three
meta functions: textual, ideational, and interpersonal
metafunctions. Each function is realised in a
different pattern of grammar. Textual metafucntion,
a unit of which is cohesion, with which this paper is
concerned, is realised in the Theme system,
referring to what is fore grounded. The Theme
system is realised through a structure in which the
clause falls into just two main constituents: a Theme
and a Rheme. A Theme is the element which comes
first in the clause, or “what the clause is going to be
about” (Eggins, 1994, p. 275). It is “the point of
departure of the message” (Halliday, 1994, p. 37;
Halliday & Mathiessen, 2004, p. 64). Meanwhile,
the Rheme is “the part of the clause in which the
Theme is developed or everything that is not the
Theme is the Rheme” (Eggins, 1994, p. 275).
In line with the metafunctions of language,
there are three types of Theme, including: topical
Theme (related to ideational metafunction), textual
Theme (related to textual metafunction), and
interpersonal Theme (related to interpersonal
metafunction).
Apart from the Theme of a clause or a
sentence, there are also higher-level Themes,
including hyper-Theme and macro-Theme. Hyper-
Theme is the Theme of a paragraph, an introductory
sentence or group of sentences, established to
predict a particular pattern of interaction among
strings, chains. Macro- Theme can be defined as a
sentence or group of sentences (possibly a paragraph
which predicts a set of hyper-Themes). This is the
Introductory paragraph of school rhetoric (Martin,
1992, p. 437; 2002, see also Martin & Rose, 2003).
Cohesion is considered an internal element,
which binds the passage together (Halliday &
Hasan, 1976). It is one of the hints for the reader to
relate the meaning together within the text
(Dastjerdi & Samian, 2011). In functional linguistic
terms, cohesion is considered a non-structural unit
of textual metafunction. Non-structural unit, as
stated by Halliday and Hasan (1976), means that
cohesion does not depend on the structural unit in
the text, such as clause or sentence. Cohesion is
located beyond the sentence or the clause, which is
meaning. Halliday and Hasan (1976) further explain
that cohesion plays a central role in creating a sense
of connectedness and unity of the text because the
interpretation of some elements in the text depends
on one element to another-- defining text as a text
(see also Martin, 1992; Eggins, 2004; Emilia, 2014).
In order to achieve the sense of connectedness and
unity, the semantic relation internal to the text,
namely cohesive device has a significant influence
to maintain interrelation between meaning in the
text (Halliday & Hasan, 1976; Gerot & Wignel,
1994; Eggins, 2004; Emilia, 2014) in order to relate
between items as the text develops (Derewianka &
Jones, 2012).
Cohesive devices which are focused in the
study include references, lexical cohesion,
conjunctions, ellipses, and substitutions which will
be discussed below.
Reference means “pointing” to something
mentioned elsewhere in the text (Derewianka &
Jones, 2012). Reference is a system to which the
identity of item is introduced and tracked through
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text (Gerot & Wignell, 1994). According to Eggins
(2004), reference is retrievable from a number of
different contexts: homophoric, exophoric, and
endophoric references (see also Gerot & Wignell,
1994). The endophoric reference will be a focus of
discussion in this paper as it is crucial in the creation
of text’s cohesion (Eggins, 2004; Halliday & Hasan,
1976) which is the focus of the study.
Endophoric is known as a reference which can
be recalled from within a text (Bloor & Bloor, 2004;
Eggins, 2004; Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004;
Christie & Derewianka, 2008; Emilia, 2014). Eggins
(2004) categorizes Endophoric into three types:
Anaphoric or “backwarding looking”; Cataphoric or
“forward looking”; and Esphoric which occurs
when the occurrence of the referent in the phrase
follows immediately the presuming referent item
(within the same nominal group/ noun phrase in a
separate clause).
Lexical cohesion is cohesion that can be
achieved through the choice of lexical item or
vocabulary to connect consistently the text to its
area of focus (Droga & Humphrey, 2003; Bloor &
Bloor, 2004; Eggins, 2004). There are two
classifications of lexical cohesion: general
(antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, repetition,
synonym) and instantial (equivalence, naming, and
semblance) (see Halliday & Hasan, 1976; Gerot &
Wignell, 1994; Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004;
Emilia, 2014).
Conjunction or conjunctive relation, as stated
by Eggins (2004, p.47), is a term used to describe
“how the writer coins and expresses logical
relationships between parts of the text”. Halliday
(2000) categorises conjunctions into three, including
elaboration (e.g. in other words, that is, I mean, to
put in other way, for example, for instance, thus,
at least, in short, actually), extension (e.g. and,
moreover, nor, but, yet, on the contrary, apart from
that, alternatively), and enhancement (e.g. secondly,
similarly, in a different way, so, then, therefore, but,
yet, still, because).
Ellipsis is the omission of words, groups or
clauses (Bloor & Bloor, 2004; Emilia, 2014), and
substitution is a term used to replace a component of
clause with a shorter word such as one, some, do
(Droga & Humphrey, 2003). The substitution occurs
in order to substitute a word, phrase, or clause
instead of repeating them elsewhere in the text
(Droga & Humphrey, 2003; Bloor & Bloor, 2004;
Carter & McCarthy, 2006, as cited in Emilia, 2014).
Another aspect of cohesion which has
informed this study is Theme progression which is a
thematic development which aims at creating
cohesion and coherence of the text (Eggins, 2004).
The employment of Thematic progression can help
the writers organize and develop their ideas or
information smoothly (Emilia, 2014). There are
three categories of theme progression patterns: the
zigzag pattern, the Theme-reiteration pattern, and
multiple Theme pattern (Eggins, 2004; see Bloor &
Bloor, 2004 for similar discussion). Each type will
be alluded to later in the discussion of sample texts.
The last theory from which the study has been
drawn is exposition. Exposition is a piece of text
that aims at persuading the readers or the listeners
by presenting arguments for a single position or
view (Anderson & Anderson, 1997; Martin & Rose,
2008). There are two kinds of exposition: Analytical
and Hortatory expositions (Derewianka & Jones,
2012; Emilia, 2014). When the writer might be
arguing simply to justify a position or an
interpretation (persuading that), it is called
analytical exposition. Moreover, when the writer
might be arguing that some sort of action should be
taken (persuading to) or set out to persuade the
reader or the listener to act in particular way, then it
is called Hortatory exposition (see Derewianka,
1990; Coffin, 2006; Martin & Rose, 2008;
Derewianka & Jones 2012).
To achieve its social purpose, exposition text
follows three essential stages, which are thesis
announcing the issues or topic being concerned
(Gerot & Wignell, 1994) in which the author gives
point of view and previews of the argument that will
follow (Anderson & Anderson,1997); arguments
supporting the thesis by giving evidence and
examples (Derewianka, 1990; Coffin, 2006); and
restatement of the thesis or conclusion summing
up the arguments and reinforcing the writers’ point
of view (Anderson & Anderson, 1997) (see Martin
& Rose, 2008; Emilia, 2011, for detailed elaboration
on argumentative genre families and their stages).
METHOD
This study utilized a qualitative case study research
design especially text analysis. The study involved
a teacher and one class consisting of 32 students,
categorized into low (with the English score 30-50),
mid (60-79), and high achievers (80-100) by the
teacher. The participation of the teacher and the
students was voluntary. In the interest of space, the
teaching learning process cannot be presented in this
paper, and only 6 texts analysed in detail in the
study. The process of text collection can be
described in several steps below.
First, the students were given four topics of
writing; the importance of doing exercise, the
dangerous of fast food, playing games in spare time,
the importance of wearing helmet and saving money
from the early age. Those topics were chosen
because they were current issues that students
encountered in their daily life.
Second, the students chose one topic and wrote
an exposition text about it. It should be mentioned
that the students wrote the text only one time within
2 hours in the classroom. This is one of the
limitations of the study, that the students were not
given an opportunity to experience the process of
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writing as professional writers do, going through the
recursive process of writing: drafting, revising,
editing, proofreading. The students could have
produced better texts if they had been given more
time and guidance.
Finally, the students’ texts were selected, and
with the help of the teacher, were classified into
three different levels of achievement, as presented in
Table 1.
Table 1. Categories of achievement and Topics of
exposition.
Categories of
achievement
Text Topic
Low achiever Text 1 Playing video games in
spare time
Text 1a The danger of fast food
Middle
achiever
Text 2 Learn to save money
from early age
Text 2a The importance of
wearing helmet
High achiever Text 3 The dangerous of fast
food
Text 3a The importance of
doing exercise
Those texts were analyzed using systemic
functional linguistics, especially terms of the
schematic structure and linguistic features, including
types of cohesive devices and Theme progression
patterns. The analysis was conducted in steps, and
will be elaborated below.
First, the texts were analysed in terms of the
schematic structure, including thesis, arguments and
restatement of the thesis. In the interest of space,
only one text from each level of achievement will be
presented in this paper.
Second, the texts were broken down into
numbered clauses. The analysis followed the
suggestion from Derewianka (1990), Gerot and
Wignell (1994), Anderson and Anderson (1997),
Emilia (2005), Knapp and Watkins (2005), Christie
and Derewianka (2008), and Martin and Rose
(2008). The analysis of the students texts
representing low, mid, and high achievers will be
presented in the discussion section, and the texts
analyzed into clauses can be seen in Tables 2, 3, and
4 in the discussion section.
Third, the texts were analyzed in terms of
linguistic features, especially aspects of cohesion,
including:
Reference chain
e.g. (6) learn save money—(7) it (A)—(10) the
best way (A)—(11) this way (A)—(15) this
method (A) (text 2), each clause was marked A
for anaphoric, C for Cataphoric, and E for
Esophoric in parentheses.
Lexical cohesion, including:
- repetition chain, e.g (1) fast foods—(2) fast
food—(5) fast food—(6) fast food—(7)fast
food—(8) fast food—(9) fast food—(13) fast
food—(17) fast food—(18) fast food (text
1), in which numbers in parentheses
indicate clause number.
- Synonym chain, e.g. (3)wearing– (4) use
(text 2a)
- Antonym chain, e.g. (1) importance—(2)
damage (text 3a)
- Hyponymy chain, e.g. (3)Video game – (3)
action game (text 1)
- Co-hyponymy, e.g. (6) cancer – (6)
Disease (text 3)
- Meronymy, e.g. (9) body—(10) digestive—
(12) immune—(15) brain (text 1)
- Co-meronymy,e.g. (10) digestive—(10)
body (text 3)
Conjunction, underlined and written in italic.
e.g. But fast food is rich of sodium and the
harmful additive (text1)
Ellipsis and substitution, identified by marking
single asterisk (*), e.g. Why?* (Text 4)
This analysis aimed at investigating the
realization of cohesive devices in students’
texts and how those cohesive devices
contribute to the creation of effective flow of
information in the texts.
Finally, the texts were analysed in terms of
Theme progression patterns to identify the text
organization and cohesion at the clause and
text levels. To follow Eggins (2004) and
Emilia (2014), the theme progression was
categoriezed into the zig-zag pattern, the
Theme reiteration pattern, and the multiple
Theme pattern. The sample of each pattern can
be seen below.
The zig-zag pattern
Text 3
(9) Second, the additive in fast food are isolate
for our body
(11)They turn into poison to our body
(12) And finally it lowers our immune
The reiteration pattern
Text 3
(6) First, fast food makes obesity
(7) Fast food almost contains ‘zero’ nutrition
value
(8) But fast food is rich of sodium and the
harmful additive
The multiple-Theme pattern
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The example of multiple Theme pattern can be
seen later in the discussion of high achiever
text, as this pattern was found only in the texts
written by high achievers.
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
The result of the analysis will be presented in terms
of schematic structure and linguistics features,
especially to do with cohesion and theme
progression. The discussion will be based on each
element of each text.
Text 1 written by low-achiever student
Text 1, written by low achiever can be seen in Table
2.
Table 2. Text 1 written by low achiever
Thesis
1. Playing video games is good for us.
Arguments
2. Playing video games can be an alternative
[[to fill holiday time]].
3. Video games can increase the sharpness and
speed of thinking, especially for (in) game
action and puzzles.
4. If we had (have) spare time,
5. we can play video games
6. because it make(s)our brain feel so fresh
7. after we doing (do) so many of jobs (much
work).
Restatement of the thesis or conclusion
8. So start now
9. to playing (play) video games in spare time.
10. It is the best strategy [[to balance between
physical activity, exercise the brain (brain
exercise), and social interaction]] .
Notes for the text above and other texts in this paper: [[ ]]
indicates embedded clause; underlined parts of
clauses are Theme of the clauses (with the words in
italics being textual Themes) to identify the
cohesion and Thematic progression of the text;
words in brackets ( ) are the correction made by the
writers.
The text has all elements of exposition, which
are thesis, arguments, and restatement of the thesis,
as pointed out by Christie and Derewianka (2008)
and other theorists mentioned above.
The text begins with an opening topic-based,
which is playing video games. Subsequent Themes
in the text are mainly categorized into multiple
Themes, consisting of textual and topical themes (if
we, because we, after we). The use of textual
Themes, realized in conjunctions above, helps
maintain the connectedness of idea at the local or
clause level. The topic playing video games which is
thematised in several clauses also indicates the
writer’s effort to foreground items to do with the
topic.
With respect to Thematic progression, the text
uses two types of Thematic progression as suggested
by Eggins (2004), including the zig-zag and the
reiteration patterns. An example of each pattern can
be seen below:
The zig-zag pattern can be seen in clauses 5- 6,
when participants of the Rheme of clause 5
becomes the Theme in clause 6 using the
reference it.
(5) We can play video game
(6) because it make(s)our brain [[ feel so
fresh]]a
The reiteration pattern (clauses 1-2) when the
Theme of clause 1 repeatedly becomes the
Theme of subsequent clauses. This also occurs
in clauses 4-5, when we as the Theme of the
clauses.
(1) Playing video games is good for us
(2) Playing video game can be an alternative
[[to fill holiday time]].
Overall, the Theme choice suggests the
writer’s effort to foreground items more specifically
to do with the topic under consideration, that is
playing games (McCarthy & Carter, 1994, p. 75 in
Emilia, 2005).
In terms of cohesive devices, which are also
relevant to the Theme choices presented above, the
text successfully employs several cohesive devices,
especially in argument and restatement of the thesis
elements. These include conjunctions as a textual
Theme to elaborate the writer’s idea: such as if,
because, so, and after (see clauses 4, 6, 7, 8
respectively). The employment of these
conjunctions strengthens the unity and
connectedness of the messages (Emilia, 2005).
Moreover, the text uses some referential items
which serve to trace ideas or participants e.g. first
personal pronoun us, we, and third personal pronoun
it. However, the presence of the first person
pronouns Thematised (see clauses 4,5, and 7) like
we suggests the students still need guidance to
develop a clearer accent of written usage (Martin,
1992). The first personal pronouns indicate a
subjective opinion (Knapp & Watkins, 2005) and
create a sense of personal relationship between the
writer and the reader. However, the last sentence of
the text indicates that the writer has successfully
employed impersonal pronoun it which makes the
text “more-written like” (Eggins, 2004) and shows
that the writer strives to foreground objectivity in
presenting the proposition (Emilia, 2005).
Text 2 written by middle-achiever student
Text 2 written by middle achiever can be seen in
Table 3.
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Table 3. Text 2 written by middle achiever
Introduction (thesis element)
1. At this time, there are so many people [[that
(who) always waste their money]]
2. to buy unused things.
3. Many people just think about their pleasure,
4. whereas they must complete (fulfill) their
necessary (needs).
5. So this way of life (must) be changed.
Arguments
6. There are so many way(s) [[ that could change
this life style]],
7. and one of them is [[learn to save money from
early age]].
8. Why it should be start(ed) from the early age?
9. We know
10. that many children that do [[ what their parents
tell]].
11. So learn (teach) the children [[to save their
money]]a is the best way [[to turn that child to be
a thrifty person]].
12. And this way would give many advantages for the
children and parents.
13. Why?
14. The parents would be calm
15. to think about their children’s future.
16. Because their children had (have) already be
(been) a thrifty person.
Conclusion or restatement of the thesis
17. So, we should try this method to our children.
18. So, they could be a thrifty person in the future.
As shown in the Table 3, similar to the text
written by low achiever, the text written by the
middle achiever has shown the essential elements of
exposition text as mentioned above. However, this
text, unlike the text written by low achiever,
provides some background information of the issue
under discussion before stating the thesis statement.
The text commences with a marked topical
Theme, realized in a Circumstance: At this time,
there are so many people [[that (who) always waste
their money]]. The use of this marked topical theme
indicates that the writer foregrounds the time as the
departure in the direction of the discourse (Emilia,
2005). Subsequent Themes in the text are
categorized into unmarked topical Themes, many of
which are combined with textual Themes, realized
in the use of several textual strategies that will be
presented later.
The text, similar to that written by low
achiever presented earlier, uses two types of Theme
progression patterns, the zig-zag and the reiteration
patterns.
Overall, the choices of Theme of the clause
suggested the writer’s effort to maintain
connectedness between clauses. However, at the
global level, the texts written by low and middle
achievers do not develop effectively because they do
not efficiently manipulate a multiple-Theme
development which shows a feature of written mode
(Emilia, 2014, p.258).
Regarding cohesive devices, which are still
relevant to Theme choices presented earlier, the text
successfully employs several textual strategies in all
elements of the text. These include conjunctions as
textual devices to maintain logical connectedness
between propositions expressed in clauses, such
as so and because (clauses 5, 11, 16, 17) which
hold an elaboration role; whereas (clause 4) which
has a contrastive role; and conjunction and (clauses
7 and 12) which has an additive role.
Moreover, other textual strategy used in this
text is reference, which includes referential items of
possessive determiner their (clauses 3, 4, 10, 11, and
15), and personal pronoun they (clauses 4 and 18)
and we (clause 17), which serve to trace ideas or
participants. However, it should be mentioned that
the frequency of the use of the first person pronoun
we in this text is lower than the text written by low
achiever. Infrequent use of personal pronouns
indicates the writer’s capacity to produce a text
which is more written like and shows emerging
capacity to express ideas in academic persuasive
genre (Humphrey, 2017, p. 29-30). In addition, the
use of pronoun we in the last element shows that the
writer prefers personal voice to impersonal voice to
persuade the readers (Chen, 2008; Dastjerdi &
Samian, 2011).
The last textual strategy used in the text is wh-
ellipsis of the whole clause, which is realized in
clause 13. The use of this ellipsis indicates that the
writer has achieved economy by avoiding the
repetition of lexical elements that can be retrieved or
understood by the reader by what has proceeded or
what has followed the ellipsis item (Knapp &
Watkins, 2005, p. 50-51).
Text 3 written by high-achiever student
Text 3 written by high achiever student can be seen
in Table 4.
The text written also shows all elements of
exposition text, including thesis, arguments, and
restatement of the thesis. Similar to the text written
by middle achiever, this text provides some
background information of the topic under
consideration which leads the reader to the thesis
statement.
The text is opened with some background
information which is signaled by a marked topical
Theme, realized in Circumstance These days, there
are many fast foods restaurants in everywhere,
which shows that the writer emphasizes time as the
departure in the direction of the discourse. The text
is then followed by the thesis statement.
Conspicuous is that the text, unlike the
previous ones, overtly signals its elements with
appropriate linguistic resources to create a
successfully-organized text through the employment
of a multiple-Theme pattern with the introduction of
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the text functioning as a macro-Theme (clause 5).
This macro-Theme, which is the introduction of the
text as a whole, is followed by hyper-Themes (topic
sentence of a paragraph), and these hyper-Themes
are explicitly signaled with appropriate linguistic
features (temporal connectives first, second, third).
The use of these connectives (clauses 6, 9, 13) helps
the text to move forward very easily.
Table 4. Text 3 written by high achiever
Thesis
1. These days, there are many fast foods restaurants
in (in should be omitted) everywhere
2. Fast food is practical,
3. and we can find it easily.
4. So many people like it.
5. However, eating fast foods has negative effects
Arguments
6. First, fast food makes obesity.
7. Fast food almost contains ‘zero’ nutrition value,
8. but fast food is rich of sodium and the harmful
additive
9. Second, the additives in fast food are isolate
(isolated) in our body.
10. They become stranger in our digestive system.
11. They turn into poison to our body.
12. And finally they lower our immune
13. Third, fast food contains MSG (Monosodium
Glutamate) [[ which is not good for health]]
14. it is [[because MSG is harmful to the brain]]
15. and can cause cancer.
Conclusion reinforces the author’s point of view
16. Overall, eating fast foods is not good for health.
17. So it is better for us [[ to decrease the
consumption of fast foods]].
The multiple-Theme pattern in the text can be
seen below.
(5) However, eating fast foods has negative effects
(macro-Theme)
(6) First, fast food makes obesity (hyper-Theme)
(9) Second, the additive in fast food are isolate for
our body (hyper-Theme)
(13) Third, fast food contains MSG (Monosodium
Glutamate) [[ (which) is not good for health]
(hyper-Theme).
The macro-Theme (Clause 5) is the highest
level of Theme or the highest “hierarchy of
periodicity” (Martin & Rose, 2003, p. 193) that allows
the readers to predict the set of hyper-Themes in the
text as a whole (Emilia, 2014, p. 258). The macro-
Theme is very crucial as it serves to signal and
establish for the kind of the text that will unfold.
The employment of multiple-Theme pattern
indicates that the high achiever student had
emerging capacity to develop textual strategy that
works at the global level (Emilia, 2014).
In terms of cohesive devices, which are also
relevant to the Theme choices presented above, the
text successfully applies cohesive devices,
especially in argument and restatement of the thesis
elements. In the argument stage, the text is
organized through the help of hyper-Themes (topic
sentence of a paragraph), through the use of
temporal connectives first, second, third, and third.
These connectives are significant to maintain logical
relations and to link points (Knapp & Watkins,
2005). Moreover, some referential items such as
personal pronoun they (clause 10 and 11) and it
(clause 12) and demonstrative pronoun the (clause
9) serve to trace ideas or participants.
Overall, the use of cohesive devices and higher
level Theme allows the text to develop efficiently
not only locally, but also globally, indicated by the
presence of macro-Theme and hyper-Themes.
Cohesive Devices Consistency
As can be seen in Table 5, students from all
different proficiency levels have started to make
efforts to employ various cohesive devices in
composing an exposition text.
Table 5 shows that lexical cohesion is the most
frequently used cohesive device in students’ texts. It
occurs 134 times in six students’ texts. This
corresponds to the results of other studies conducted
by Chen (2008), Sanczyk (2010), Dastjerdi and
Samian (2011), and Saudin (2013) on the frequent
use of lexical cohesion in argumentative genre. The
use of such lexical cohesion strengthens the internal
connectedness of the text by gradually expanding
and shifting its textual meaning (Eggins, 2004, p.
52).
The occurrence of lexical cohesion is followed
by conjunction and reference respectively, with the
number of occurrence of conjunction being 48 times
and reference 47 times. The employment of
conjunction in the text has significant contribution
to the text’s unity and its logical relation between
clauses (Emilia, 2014). Moreover, the use of
reference keeps the track of the things or
participants presented.
Table 5. Summary of cohesive devices used in students’ texts
Text
Cohesive Devices
High-Achiever Middle- Achiever Low-Achiever
Total
1 2 3 4 5 6
Reference 8 11 5 19 2 2 47
Lexical cohesion 26 30 24 24 12 18 134
Conjunction 12 8 11 8 5 4 48
Ellipses - - - 1 - - 1
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The least occurrence of cohesive devices is
ellipsis and substitution. Ellipsis occurs once and
substitution is absent in all the texts. The reason for
the least occurrence of ellipsis and the absence of
substitution is that those cohesive devices mostly
exist in conversation or dialogic text than in written
discourse (see also Witte & Faigley, 2008, p.190).
Thus, in this aspect, all texts have started to show
their understanding of characteristics of written
texts.
Theme Progression Consistency
As discussed above, in terms of Theme progression,
all texts employ the zig-zag and the Theme
reiteration patterns. However, only high achievers
could apply the multiple Theme pattern.
The occurrence of each Theme progression
pattern varies, and the highest occurrence is the zig-
zag pattern. This shows that all texts reflects the
students’ emerging capacity to build a sense of
cumulative development of information in that
newly information introduced from the previous
information found in the preceding clauses (Eggins,
2004; Emilia, 2014).
The second Thematic progression pattern that
occurs frequently in all texts is the reiteration
pattern. The use of the reiteration pattern indicates
that the students have a strong awareness of keeping
the information flow in a clear manner by repeating
the use of similar topical Theme (Eggins, 2004;
Emilia, 2014) to allow the reader to find information
easily.
The last Thematic progression pattern that is
used only in texts written by high achievers is the
multiple-Theme pattern. The use of this pattern
signals that high-achiever students have carefully
planned their writings in a sense that the ideas are
organized into a clear sequence as the text unfolds to
guide the reader to a line of information as a whole.
All these suggest the need for explicit teaching
to allow all students have a similar capacity to create
a successfully-written text.
CONCLUSION
This paper has presented the results of a study on
cohesion of texts written by eleventh graders in a
school, in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The
study analysed 6 texts written by 6 students,
representing low, mid, and high achievers,
categorized by the teacher. The texts were analyzed
using systemic functional linguistics (SFL),
especially in terms of schematic structure and
linguistic features, especially those to do with
cohesion.
The results show that all texts show all
elements of an exposition, including thesis,
argument, and restatement of the thesis. This
indicates, to some extent, students’ grasp and
understanding of the demand of the generic form of
an academic exposition genre, to achieve the
purpose and the function of the genre. However,
only texts written by high achievers overtly signal
the elements with appropriate linguistic resources or
discourse features which can create global cohesion
and guide the reader to a line of understanding of
information as a whole.
Regarding Thematic progression, all students
have started to make efforts to write a cohesive text,
especially at the local or clause level, through the
use of the zig-zag and the Theme reiteration
patterns. However, only high achievers could apply
the multiple Theme pattern, which suggests their
emerging capacity to create a successfully-organized
and well-planned text with a better sense of
connectedness, unity, and flow of information at the
text or global level.
Moreover, in terms of cohesive devices, all
students started to use some simple cohesive
devices—reference, lexical cohesion, and
conjunction. Lexical cohesion is used by the
students more frequently than conjunctions,
references, ellipses, and substitutions.
It should be mentioned that all texts are still
rudimentary, and have inappropriate word choices
and grammatical mistakes. This suggests that the
students still needed more guidance and time to
research the topic in focus, to allow them to a create
longer and more elaborate text with more
characteristics of written language and
argumentative discourse with consistency and
accuracy.
It is then recommended that further research
involving more text types and foci of analysis and
more participants in different contexts in Indonesia
be conducted. A close look at the time allocation for
English in high school, the teaching of writing
different text types as suggested in the 2013 English
curriculum, and the role of explicit teaching to guide
students to write successfully-written texts should
also be conducted.
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