Roles of Conjunction in Developing Cohesion-Based Ideas: A Study in Speaking Class

摘要

Many researches on English as second language have been conducted in various countries with different first languages. One of the researches is analyzing the second language acquisition of English. This research discusses the progress of the students'English skills in speaking class. It describes the roles of conjunction in order to develop ideas of speaking based on the cohesion. The data are derived from speaking class of LPDP Affirmation awardees' English preparation. The data are taken from the class before the lesson of conjunction and afterwards. Both of the data are compared in order to see the ideas development before and after receiving the conjunction lesson. The results of this research show that there is a correlation between the conjunction lessons with the speaking skill improvement, in which they are able to produce more clauses since the conjunctions could be used as stimulants of generating more ideas.