THE GRAMMATICAL COHESIVE DEVICES ERROR USAGE BY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS IN PUTERA BATAM UNIVERSITY

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This research is actually the continuation research of cohesive analysis which
already presented before as the outing target of PDP funded by RistekDikti. If previously
the analysis is about the frequency of grammatical cohesive, the further analysis is about
grammatical error of cohesive usage done by a students. The method for this research is
quantitative descriptive which describes the real situation without examine hypothesis.
This research analyzes the frequency of grammatical cohesive devices usage by the
students of PuteraBatam University. The students as the object of the research are given a
testin giving a description about social media. Basically students use grammatical
cohesive devices and it is found that from four types of devices, the most prominent devices
is references,followed by conjunction, Ellipsis and Substitution. After getting those result,
the further analysis concern on grammatical cohesive devices error usage done by students
withthe result mostly students have problem in theoverused of conjunction “and” and
“because” and also the misuse of pronoun “it” and possessive determiner “its”, “ours”,
“yours”, “theirs”.