Word Sequence in Jakarta Post Headlines Thesis. English Education Program. State Islamic College (STAIN) of Tulungagung.

Keywords: Word Sequence and Impression. The background of this research is the fact that in the written language the sequence of word is used by the writer of newspapers to attract more attention for the readers. The sequence of word will give impression of the massage which is delivered by the writer to reader when they are read the news. Jakarta Post is used in this research because the pattern in word sequence is easy to find in this newspaper and then Jakarta Post is more understand than other English newspapers. The formulation of the research problem is how the sequence of words headlines of Jakarta Post? And the purpose of this research is to find and describe the sequence of words in headline of Jakarta post. Qualitative approach was used in this research. (1) The instrument of this particular study was the researcher herself. (2) The source of data was headline of Jakarta Post taken from www.JakartaPost.com(3) Data collected from www.JakartaPost.com website. The entire data amount to 28 headlines, (4) Data analysis (a) data reduction (b) data display(c) conclusions drawing and verification. Research finding in this research shows word sequence is used by the writer in the newspapers to motivate the reader to read the news, to create suspense the reader, to convince the reader of the truth what the writing of writer with credible supporting details, to persuade the reader for doing of actions what the writer hope, and the last to shock or give a surprise the reader which read the news. Finally the writer suggests the students and researcher who are interested in discourse especially in word-sequence to study more related references and to conduct a study about word sequence from previous point of view and different subject so the study about word-sequence will be develop