Lexical Cohesion Types Used In The Discussion Section Of English Journal Articles

This thesis discussed the analysis about how the types of lexical cohesions are used in the discussion section of English journal articles and description of the dominant type of lexical cohesion are used in the discussion section of English journal articles. The problem of this research is how are the use of lexical cohesion types in the discussion section of English journal articles and what is the dominant type of lexical cohesion used in the discussion section of English journal articles. This research is conducted using qualitative method. In order to achieve the goal, three discussion sections of English Language Teaching journal article from three different continent named Asia, Australia and Europe. Were analyzed using an application named AntConc 3.5.8. (Windows) 2019. The findings show that the discussion section of three journal articles used all of lexical cohesion types for 703 times (117 times in article 1, 191 times in article 2 and 375 times in article 3). It divided by six kinds of lexical cohesion. The first kind is repetition that used for 429 times in whole of research sample. Then, synonym used for 87 times. Next antonym used for 22 times. Then, hyponym used for 15 times. Next type is meronym that used for 16 times. Last is collocation that used for 114 times. There are the arrangements of lexical cohesion frequency, they are repetition (61.02%), synonym (12.37%), antonym (3.12%), hyponym (2.13), meronym (2.27%) and collocation (16.21%). So, the most frequently use of lexical cohesion types is repetition with 61.02%. While the least frequency of lexical cohesion types is hyponym (2.13%)