AN ANALYSIS OF COHESION AND COHERENCE ON SECOND YEAR STUDENTS' WRITING OF ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT

This research aimed to describe cohesion and coherence devices used by the fourth semester students in English Education Department of the Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training in State Islamic University Sulthan Thaha Saifuddin Jambi. This research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative design. The technique of data collection used in this research was documentation. This research used content analysis in analyzing the data. The subject of this research was the fourth semester or the second years students of English education department. The result of this research showed that the fourth semester students were able to use all the grammatical cohesion items in their writing, except ellipsis, and they were also able to use all types of lexical cohesion, except the synonym and general word. Besides, all of the students were able to use all types of coherence devices in their writing