An Analysis of Discourse Markers Used in the Essays on Hamlet Drama Written by the Sixth Semester Students of English Education Program of Mataram University in the Academic Year 2019/2020

Frida, Anjani Hidayat (2021) An Analysis of Discourse Markers Used in the Essays on Hamlet Drama Written by the Sixth Semester Students of English Education Program of Mataram University in the Academic Year 2019/2020. S1 thesis, Universitas Mataram.

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Abstract

This study aims at describing the types and the errors of discourse markers that are occurred in the essays on Hamlet drama written by the sixth-semester students of English education program of Mataram University in the academic year 2019/2020. The method of doing this research is a mixed-method or combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. The data were collected from sixth- semester students of English education program of Mataram University in the academic year 2019/2020 with a total sample of 28 students. The result of this study showed that all the types in three functional classes of discourse markers by Bruce Fraser (2009) were used by students in their essays. They are Elaborative Discourse Markers with total number of occurrences 200 times (43.20%), Contrastive Discourse Markers with total number of occurrences 169 times (36.50%), and Inferential Discourse Markers with total number of occurrences 94 times (20.30%). The researcher found that Elaborative Discourse Markers are most frequently used by students to elaborate the ideas. Furthermore, there are some errors in student‟s essays related to Kao and Chen's theory (2011) about the six types of misuse patterns. Turns out three of six misuse patterns occur in students‟ essays such as distraction, wrong relation, and semantic incompletion. There are no surface logicality, non-equivalent exchange, and overuse occurred in student‟s essays.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Keywords (Kata Kunci): Keywords: discourse markers, essay, writing
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
Depositing User: Rini Trisnawati
Date Deposited: 24 Nov 2021 05:43
Last Modified: 24 Nov 2021 05:43
URI: http://eprints.unram.ac.id/id/eprint/26197

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