THE ANALYSIS OF THEMATIC CHOICE IN STUDENTS’ PARAGRAPH WRITING

Sari

In this research, the writers analyze the documents of students’ paragraph
writing. The writers intended to find out the types of themes in students’
paragraph. Since the research is the study of systemic functional analysis, the
theory of SFG in this research was developed by Halliday (2004) that was
strengthened by Bloor and Bloor (2004 and some other supporting theories.).
This was a qualitative research.. From 311 themes stated in 50 paragraphs, the
most themes used by the students are Topical themes. The two types of topical
themes are stated in more than a half of the whole themes found. The unmarked
themes are 54,98% , while the marked topical themes are shown 12,54%. The
Textual themes are created 28,94% of the 311 clauses of the 50 paragraph
written by the students. The smallest themes found is interpersonal themes. It is
only 3,54% from the whole paragraph.