An Analysis Of Grammatical Cohesion In The Thesis Background Of English Language Education Students At Universitas Islam Riau

This research is research about Grammatical Cohesion in students’ thesis background section of English language education at UIR. The purpose of this research is to find out the kinds of grammatical cohesion, they are; reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction and to analyze the function of it. The method of this research is qualitative method. The data source of this research is ten undergraduate students of English Language Education Students of UIR especially in background of the problem section, who made thesis in a range year 2016-2018. The instrument of this research is documentation. The researcher reads and analyzed the text using Halliday and Hasan’s theory. The result of this research shows that there are four types of grammatical cohesion which are exist in the ten thesis especially in background of the problem section, they are reference (401 data), substitution (5), ellipsis (25), and conjunction (340).So, the total of grammatical cohesion found in this research were 771 items. Consequently, the researcher concluded that the dominant types of grammatical cohesion are reference and the conjunction. The lowest frequent of the type are ellipsis and substitution. The researcher has counted the all data manually and accurately