An Analysis of Cohesion in Descriptive Text of English Textbook Used in Tenth Grade of SMA Muhammadiyah 8 Kisaran

This study focused on finding out the cohesiveness and finding out the dominant
types of cohesion of descriptive in English textbook used in the tenth grade
students of SMA Muhammadiyah 8. In this study, the researcher used qualitative
research design because the researcher did not apply any treatment and
experiment in the research. Lodico, et al (2010:143) mention that qualitative
research is a means of giving voice to the participants‟ feelings and perceptions.
This is based on the idea that knowledge is derived from the social setting and
understanding it is considered as a legitimate scientific process.In this study, the
source of data is the descriptive text found in English textbook entitled
“BahasaInggris” for grade X Senior High School published by Ministry of
Education and Culture of Indonesia, 2017 written by Utamiwidiati, Zuliati
Rohmah, and Furaidah.This study was conducted by finding out the coheviness
and finding out the dominant types of cohesion of descriptive in English textbook
used in the tenth grade students according to Miles &Huberman and Saldana
(1994) technique. Miles &Huberman and Saldana elaborate several steps of
analyzing data; they are data collection, data reduction, data display, and data
verification/conclusion. The technique of collecting data of this study were
collected through reading attentively and accurately the Textbook Entitled
“Bahasa Inggris” for Grade X published by Ministry of Education and Culture of
Indonesia from certain pages that have been chosen by the researcher as the
samples. From the data, the researcher discovered 93 cohesions. From the 93
cohesions, the researcher reduced the data which contained only the grammatical
and lexical cohesions. In finding out the dominant cohesion, the researcher
discovered that the grammatical cohesion dominantly is conjunction. Meanwhile,
for the lexical cohesion is collocation dominantly. The findings of the study
revealed that the teacher can apply the result of this study as feedback on their
teaching activities, improve their knowledge and experience in choosing
appropriate book, so that the students are better in readingskill, and the students
can improve their motivation to read, because the teachers will have already
known about how to choose an interesting textbook for the teaching learning
process