Cohesion in Written English

Abstract

his study entitled 'Cohesion in written English' attempts to find out frequency of cohesive devices in written English of higher secondary level students.To accomplish the objectives of the study the researcher collected data from the students of higher secondary level in Kathmandu valley. The sample size of the study consisted of 45 students who were selected using random sampling procedure. Only essay type of questions were used to find out cohesion in written English. The finding of the study shows that the students were more better in reflective essay than other two essays. Moreover, the frequency of 'Pronouns' was the highest one; frequency of 'additive words' was the second highest, and frequency of 'demonstratives was the thirdhighest. Similarly, the students of all the three higher secondary schools were in the first position in writing reflective essay. The students of all the three schools were in the second position in writing argumentative essay. And the students of all the three schools were in the third position. The thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one consists of general background, review of the related literature,objectives of the study, significance of the study and definition of specific terms. Chapter two deals with methodology. It includes sources of data, sample of the study, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection,limitations of the study. Chapter three consists of analysis and interpretation of the data. The analysis of data has been made in terms of students' performance, use of cohesive device and transitional expression, higher secondary school, and essay description. Various statistical tools such as mean, percentage were used for comparative and analytical study. Chapter four deals with the findings and recommendations of the study which were drawn on the basis of analysis and interpretations. Also, this chapter follows references and appendices.