Themes and Thematic Progression of the Reading Texts in English Learning Materials for Senior High School Grade X Written By Mgmp Team Of Kudus Regency.

English Learning Materials for Senior High School Grade X written by MGMP Team of Kudus Regency is one of English handbook which is used as a main learning source for students. It provides so many materials including reading texts. There are five text types in this book. And as a handbook, the texts in this book must be correct and coherence. And it can be done by analyzing textual meaning. To analyze and discuss textual meaning, we need a tool that we call theme and rheme. The exchange information between successive theme and rheme pairings in a text is called as thematic progression. Thematic progression contributes to the cohesive development of a whole text. The objective of this research is to find out the types of theme and thematic progression of reading texts in English Learning Materials for Senior High School Grade X written by MGMP team of Kudus Regency. The design of this research is a descriptive qualitative since it examines the types of theme and thematic progression of reading texts in English Learning Materials for Senior High School Grade X written by MGMP team of Kudus Regency. The result of this study shows that the reading texts in English Learning Materials for Senior High School Grade X written by MGMP Team of Kudus Regency consist of 270 topical theme, 101 textual theme and 7 interpersonal theme. At last, it can be seen that the highest number types of theme is topical theme. The writer also found that the texts use various types of thematic progression which comprise 158 constant/reiteration theme, 62 zigzag theme and 14 multiple theme. So, it can be seen that the highest number types of thematic progression is constant/reiteration theme. Therefore the writer suggest that the English teacher should understand about thematic progression so that they can teach the students about how to create coherent text. So they can be a professional English teacher and can teach their students how to create a coherent text. The writer also recommends for English students and further reseracher to add their knowledge about the theme-rheme and thematic progression in order to create coherent in the whole text especially in writing skill