ANALYZING COHESIVE DEVICES IN THE STUDENTS NARRATIVE TEXT WRITTEN BASED ON FRONT OF THE CLASS MOVIE SCRIPT

Abstract

This research aimed to know the types of cohesive devices in the students narrative text written based on movie script at the third semester in Muhammadiyah University of Makassar.This research used Descriptive Qualitative Research with 17 Subjects and used the teory of Halliday and Hasan to find out the types of cohesive devices used by the students.The result from this research showed that the grammatical cohesion is more common found than lexical cohesion. The percentages of grammatical cohesion parts were reference 54.6%, substitution 2.7%, ellipsis 0.5%, conjunction 30.5%. Meanwhile the percentages of lexical part were Repetition 8,2%, synonym 0.5%, Antonym 1.5% and collocation 1.2%.The researcher concluded that generally the students narrative text written called as a good text because it has good relation among the clauses from the students writing. It was shown from all the types of cohesive devices that was found in this students narrative text written based on front of the class movie script.