GRAMMATICAL AND LEXICAL COHESION FOUND IN NARRATIVE TEXT MADE BY THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA N 1 SAMIGALUH IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2016/2017

Abstract

This paper aimed to find out what kinds of grammatical and lexical cohesion in narrative text made by the tenth grade students and what kinds of dominant cohesion in narrative text made by the tenth grade students. This research is qualitative research because the researcher made the descriptions toward the finding of collecting the data. The main instrument in this research is the researcher. They used written test as a technique of colecting data. In collecting the data, the researchers did some steps, they were: coming to the school, asking permission to the teacher to get the written document of students writting in her class, asking the students to make a narrative text, analyzed how many grammatical and lexical cohesion in the narrative text and found out how many percentages of grammatical and lexical cohesion that the student use in the narrative text which was written by the students on April 11ᵗ ͪ, 2017. The results of showed that there are two types of cohesion in narrative text written by students. They are 171 (81%) grammatical cohesion and 39 (19%) lexical cohesion.
Keywords: , grammatical cohesion, lexical cohesion, narrative text, writing