A STUDY OF COHESION OF SPOKEN DISCOURSE IN DISCUSSION AND DEBATE CLASS OF THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

Abstract

Cohesion is a part of discourse which links ideas linguistically across sentence or utterance. This research is descriptive qualitative research which investigates the cohesion of spoken discourse of the fourth semester students in discussion and debate class. The objectives of this research are to find out the kinds of cohesion of spoken discourse used by the fourth semester students and whether the fourth semester students’ spoken discourse is good or not. The researcher uses observation technique in collecting the data by observing and recording the fourth semester students’ talks and activities in discussion and debate class. The result shows that there are two kinds of cohesion found in spoken discourse of the fourth semester students in discussion and debate class. There are grammatical cohesion (73.64%) and lexical cohesion (26.36%). Besides, the cohesion of spoken discourse of the fourth semester students in discussion and debate class is good because it contains of grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion. Hence, the spoken discourse of the fourth semester students can be understood by the listeners easily.