THEMATIC PROGRESSION USED IN THE STUDENTS’ WRITING; A CASE OF THE ENGLISH STUDENTS’ WRITING OF UNIVERSITAS PGRI SEMARANG

Abstract

This study aims to find out the types of thematic progression patterns the students mostly employ in their recount texts and to examine the coherence of third semester students’ recount texts viewed from their thematic progression of the English Education Study Program. The object of the study is recount texts of the third semester students of the English Education Study Program of Universitas PGRI Semarang in the academic year of 2018/2019 who took Writing 3 Class in group 1. The unit of analysis is collecting the data, segementing the data, and the last is identifying. This study was a written discourse analysis which was used to figure out the realization of meanings. The findings showed that all of the students employed more than one pattern in their recount texts. They tended to use combination between reiteration or constant, zig-zag or linear, and multiple theme patterns. However, zig-zag or linear theme pattern was the most dominant one.