Alfitriyanita, Alfitriyanita (2022) An Analysis of Lexical Chain on the Writing of Summarization Among The Eleventh Grade Student of Senior High School at Darusysyafa’ah Kotagajah in the Academic Year of 2020/2021. Undergraduate thesis, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Metro.

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Abstract

The objectives of this research were to investigate the most dominant type of cohesive relation in lexical chain investigated in students‟ writing, and to analyze the difficulties of lexical chain mastery at the eleventh graders at SMA Darusysyafa‟ah. The researcher analyzed those phenomena based on the consideration of the students‟ problem in writing investigated in the process of pre-survey. Therefore, it is hoped that this research is beneficial in illustrating the phenomena of using lexical chain in the students‟ writing.

The method of this research was qualitative research in the form of a case study carried out at SMA Darusysyafa‟ah. The primary sources of this research are the results of interview with English teacher and the documents of writing assignment of the eleventh graders at SMA Dasrusysyafa‟ah that consists of 12 students.The researcher used observation, documentation and interview in collecting the data. The observation was conducted to know the most dominant cohesive relation of lexical chain in the students‟ writing. The interview was conducted to analyze the difficulties of lexical chain mastery of the research objectives.

The research results show the most dominant cohesive relation of lexical chain investigated in the students‟ writing skill that is repetition same word in the same sense. Furthermore, the second research result is about the difficulties of lexical chain mastery analyzed in the students‟ writing including the students' difficulties in using lexical chain in writing; in applying synonyms for words with the same meaning; in using hypernyms; and in using hyphonyms

Keywords: analysis, lexical chain, writing, qualitative research.

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