EFL Students’ Use of Transition Signals in Essay Writing
Keywords:
EFL students, transition signals, essay writing, comparison and contrast essay
Abstract
This study is aimed to explore the use transition signals used by EFL students in essay writing in higher education level. Particularly, this essay will be conducted to English Language Education Study Program students at University of Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda. This research is a qualitative study with content analysis research design where twenty-six comparison and contrast essays of the third semester students were analyzed by using coding which indicates transition signals used by students. Additionally, in-depth interview also applied to the students who are considered as less active users of transition signals in their writing in order to figure out deeper on what difficulties they found during writing the essay. The findings of this research reveal three major result i.e. most of students are succeed to use compare and contrast type of transition signals to compose their comparison and contrast essay, the students mostly use time order transition signals to make their essay coherent, and two out of twenty-six students have no transition signals to be used on their essays. Result from interview shows that the students still lack of understanding toward when, where, and what type of transition signals can be used for certain context. Pedagogical implication is discussed further in this research.References
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Bailey, S. (2006). Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students Second edition. Routledge Falmer Taylor & Francis Group.
Banjarnahor, N. L. J., & Narius, D. (2019). An Analysis of Student’s Ability in Using Transition Signals in An Argumentative Essay Written by The Second Semester of English Department Students at Universitas Negeri Padang. Journal of English Language Teaching, 8(3), 417–424.
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Carstairs-McCarthy, A. (2002). An introduction to English morphology: Words and their structure. Edinburgh University Press.
Cresswell, J. (2005). Research Design: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Longman.
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Denzin, N. K., & Lincoln, Y. S. (2005). Handbook of Qualitative Research. SAGE Publication Inc.
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Gay, L. R., Mills, G. E., & Airasian, P. (2006). Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications. Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall.
Hatch, E., & Brown, C. (1995). Vocabulary, Semantics, and Language Education. Cambridge University Press.
Johnson, B., & Christensen, L. (2000). Educational Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches. Allyn and Bacon, Inc.
Leavy, P. (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research. Oxford University Press.
Lee, L. F., Sidhu, G. K., Chan, Y. F., Teoh, S. H., Narayanan, G., & Ishak, M. I. A. M. (2016). Examining Contributory Factors and Barriers to Success in Academic Writing Among Undergraduates. In Regional Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences. Springer Singapore.
Lynch, T., & Anderson, K. (2013). Grammar for Academic Writing. University of Edinburgh Press.
Mahanani, N. (2008). An Analysis on the Transitional Words n Essays Written by the Students of English Department of the State Islamic University of Malang. The State Islamic University of Malang.
Mahendra, M. W., & Dewi, N. P. R. P. (2017). The Use of Transition Signals in Efl Academic Writing Context: a Corpus Study. Jurnal Bahasa Lingua Scientia, 9(1), 87–100. https://doi.org/10.21274/ls.2017.9.1.87-100
Megaiab, M. M. A. (2014). The English Writing Competence of the Students of Indonesian Senior High School. WEI International Academic Conference Proceedings.
Miles, M. B., Huberman, ‎A. M., & Saldana, J. (2014). Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebooks (3rd ed.). SAGE Publications, Inc.
Murray, R., & Moore, S. (2006). The Handbook of Academic Writing. Open University Press.
Nikmah, S. M. (2019). an Undergraduate Thesis an Error Analysis on Using Transition Signals in Essay Writing Among the Fourth Semester Students of English Education Department in State Institute for Islamic Studies of Metro. State Institute for Islamic Studies of Metro.
Oshima, A., & Hogue, A. (2007). Introduction to Academic Writing. Pearson Longman.
Papadopoulos, T. P. (2018). Understanding the Body Paragraph : A Handbook for EFL Teachers & Students. The University of San Francisco.
Patton, M. Q. (2002). Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods (3rd ed.). Sage Publications.
Rachmawati, S. M. (2016). An Analysis of Using Transitions in Writing Argumentative Essay of the English Department Students at University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri Academic Year 2015/2016. University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri.
Rianti, R. (2020). The Ability of PBI Students in Using Transition Signals in Paragraph Writing. UIN Ar-Raniry.
Richard, J. C., & Renandya, W. A. (2002). Methodology in Language Teaching: An Anthology of Current Practice. Cambridge University Press.
Sari, D. K. (2018). The Use of Transitional Signals in Writing Essay at the Fifth Semester Students of English Department in Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. Muhammadiyah University of Makassar.
Siswanti & Harjanto. (2018). Coherence Strategies and Devices in Efl Academic Writing Introductions. Magister Scientiae, 3(43), 34–57.
Tampubolon, S. (2019). Transition Signals Used in Short Stories. JETAL: Journal of English Teaching & Applied Linguistic, 1(1), 33–40. https://doi.org/10.36655/jetal.v1i1.118
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The College of Saint Rose Writing Center. (2012). Transition Sentences. Transition Sentence Handout. https://www.strose.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Transition-Sentences-Handout-2012B.pdf
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Vincent, V. (1984). Writing’s Building. Antony Rowe Ltd.
Warna, D., Wijaya, B., Sartika, E., & Riznanda, W. A. (2019). Cohesive Devices Used in Argumentative Essays of Undergraduate EFL Students in Indonesia. ENGLISH FRANCA : Academic Journal of English Language and Education, 3(02), 125. https://doi.org/10.29240/ef.v3i02.1164
Yolanda, F. Y., Jufri, J., & Fitrawati, F. (2013). The Analysis of English Department Students’ Ability in Using Transition Signals at Padang State University. FBS Padang State University.
Yusof, J. et. al. (2012). Guided Peer Feedback on Academic Writing Tasks using Facebook Notes: An Exploratory Study. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 67, 216 – 228.
Zemack, D. E., & Rumisek, L. A. (2005). Academic Writing: From Paragraph to Essay. Macmillan.
Published
2021-05-16
How to Cite
Ariyanti, A. (2021). EFL Students’ Use of Transition Signals in Essay Writing. Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics, 6(1), 285-294. https://doi.org/10.21462/ijefl.v6i1.390
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