English Cohesion as Language Acquisition Achievement in Dynata Elementary School

Abstract

This research focuses on the analysis of English Cohesion applied in student’s writing of sixth grade of Dynata Elementary School located in Denpasar. The aim of the research was to know the language acquisition achievement. The theory used to analyze the achievement is English Cohesion proposed by Halliday (2014). The data were taken from student’s worksheets of sixth grade of Dynata Elementary School. The method used for the research is qualitative, library research by emphasizing syntagmatic and paradigmatic. The result of the research shows that the students are able to use English as communication tool. It can be seen from English cohesion application which is used to cohere the text. Personal reference is the most use in the text, Conjunctions used in the text indicate the chronology of events. Lexical Cohesion is also found in the text. However, grammatical errors are also found in the text. Nevertheless, the errors made by the students are not categorized fatal, but understandable.