Thematic Progression in Students’ Descriptive Text

This study was aimed at investigating the patterns of Thematic Progression in
students’ descriptive text and to exploring the reason why the Thematic Progression
pattern realized as they are. This study was conducted by using descriptive
qualitative research design. The sources of the data were the students of SMA Nurul
Amaliyah. Data of the research were taken from students writing and interview. The
techniques of collecting data were the documentary technique and interview
technique. Students’ writing was done to see the activities by the students in the
classroom. Then, the researcher interviewed the students to exploring the reason
why the Thematic Progression pattern realized as they were. The finding showed
there were two patterns of the thematic progression used by the students in
descriptive text. There were Theme reiteration/constant theme pattern (TR/CTP)
and zig-zag/linear theme pattern (Zig-zag/LTP). Afterward, they were four reasons
why the students used thematic progression in the way they did: student’s lack of
knowledge about using thematic progression, they were also not interested in
writing, the students also get resources from teacher’s explanation, and get
resources from text reading of descriptive text.