Analisis Kesalahan Kohesi Gramatikal dan Koherensi dalam Teks Eksposisi dan Strategi Koreksi

Abstract

This research aims to identify and determine errors in grammatical cohesion and coherence in the exposition texts of class X private vocational school students in Bogor City. The method used is descriptive qualitative. Meanwhile, there search technique used is data analysis technique, namely the researcher uses data in the form of written tests, questionnaires, data reduction, and drawing conclusions. Researchers found errors in grammatical cohesion and coherence in the exposition tests of class X students at private vocational schools in Bogor City. These include errors in theuse of grammatical cohesion, endophoric references, exophoric references, conjunctions, substitutions, and ellipsis or omissions, and errors in theuse of coherence, namely joint coherence, comparative coherence, and exemplary coherence. Based on the data  recapitulation, it is known that there were 62 data on grammatical cohesionerrors and 6 data on coherence errors in the exposition texts of class 12%, conjunction errors: 28 findings 45%, substitution errors: 12 findings 19%, and ellipsis errors: 3 findings 5%, as well as findings of coheren cecoherence errors: 1 data 17%, comparison coherence errors: 3 data 50%, and sampling coherence errors: 2 data 33%. Peercorrection strategies in understanding errors in grammatical cohesion and coherence have a positive impact and can improve understanding, recognition and improvement of texts in students’ writing.