Thematic development on students’ analytical exposition texts a case of the fourth semester students in the academic year 2014/2015

his final project is based on a study endeavored to examine the development of analytical exposition texts written by the fourth semester students of Universitas Negeri Semarang in the academic year of 2014/2015 who took Genre-based Writing class . The objective of the study is to examine to what ex...

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Main Authors: Novita Setiawati, Intan Permata Hapsari, Arif Suryo Priyatmojo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Negeri Semarang 2017-12-01
Series:ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching
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Online Access:https://journal.unnes.ac.id/sju/index.php/elt/article/view/20695
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author Novita Setiawati
Intan Permata Hapsari
Arif Suryo Priyatmojo
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Intan Permata Hapsari
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description his final project is based on a study endeavored to examine the development of analytical exposition texts written by the fourth semester students of Universitas Negeri Semarang in the academic year of 2014/2015 who took Genre-based Writing class . The objective of the study is to examine to what extent the students develop their analytical exposition texts, in terms of Thematic Development.This study is a written discourse analysis in which the data collected are in the form of written texts. To examine Thematic Development, Thematic Structure must be found first. The data were divided into clauses and analyzed to discover their Thematic Structure using theory suggested by Gerot and Wignell (1995). Then the Themes and Rhemes were examined using Thematic Development theory suggested by Eggins (2004).Results show that unmarked Topical Theme and reiteration pattern are dominant on students’ texts because they are the simplest and easiest form of Thematic Structure and Thematic Development. In addition, some problems related to Thematic Structure and Thematic Development were found. In Thematic Structure analysis, one problem of empty Theme and three problems of empty Rheme were discovered, while more than half of total clauses did not have Thematic Development. These might indicate two points; first, the students of Genre-based Writing class are still novice writers. Second, they might not know about Thematic Development theory and how to employ it to develop their analytical exposition texts.
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spelling doaj.art-ba2c01cd2ca04f99bfe274a25aa22cc72022-12-22T02:22:20ZengUniversitas Negeri SemarangELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching2252-67062017-12-0162142154https://doi.org/10.15294/elt.v6i2.20695Thematic development on students’ analytical exposition texts a case of the fourth semester students in the academic year 2014/2015Novita Setiawati0Intan Permata Hapsari1Arif Suryo Priyatmojo2Universitas Negeri SemarangUniversitas Negeri SemarangUniversitas Negeri Semarang his final project is based on a study endeavored to examine the development of analytical exposition texts written by the fourth semester students of Universitas Negeri Semarang in the academic year of 2014/2015 who took Genre-based Writing class . The objective of the study is to examine to what extent the students develop their analytical exposition texts, in terms of Thematic Development.This study is a written discourse analysis in which the data collected are in the form of written texts. To examine Thematic Development, Thematic Structure must be found first. The data were divided into clauses and analyzed to discover their Thematic Structure using theory suggested by Gerot and Wignell (1995). Then the Themes and Rhemes were examined using Thematic Development theory suggested by Eggins (2004).Results show that unmarked Topical Theme and reiteration pattern are dominant on students’ texts because they are the simplest and easiest form of Thematic Structure and Thematic Development. In addition, some problems related to Thematic Structure and Thematic Development were found. In Thematic Structure analysis, one problem of empty Theme and three problems of empty Rheme were discovered, while more than half of total clauses did not have Thematic Development. These might indicate two points; first, the students of Genre-based Writing class are still novice writers. Second, they might not know about Thematic Development theory and how to employ it to develop their analytical exposition texts.https://journal.unnes.ac.id/sju/index.php/elt/article/view/20695analytical expositiontextual meaningthematic developmentthematic structure
spellingShingle Novita Setiawati
Intan Permata Hapsari
Arif Suryo Priyatmojo
Thematic development on students’ analytical exposition texts a case of the fourth semester students in the academic year 2014/2015
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching
analytical exposition
textual meaning
thematic development
thematic structure
title Thematic development on students’ analytical exposition texts a case of the fourth semester students in the academic year 2014/2015
title_full Thematic development on students’ analytical exposition texts a case of the fourth semester students in the academic year 2014/2015
title_fullStr Thematic development on students’ analytical exposition texts a case of the fourth semester students in the academic year 2014/2015
title_full_unstemmed Thematic development on students’ analytical exposition texts a case of the fourth semester students in the academic year 2014/2015
title_short Thematic development on students’ analytical exposition texts a case of the fourth semester students in the academic year 2014/2015
title_sort thematic development on students analytical exposition texts a case of the fourth semester students in the academic year 2014 2015
topic analytical exposition
textual meaning
thematic development
thematic structure
url https://journal.unnes.ac.id/sju/index.php/elt/article/view/20695
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