TABLE OF CONTENT

COVER ............................................................................................................... i
ACKNOWLADGEMENT ................................................................................. ii
TABLE OF CONTENT ..................................................................................... iii
LIST OF TABLE ............................................................................................... v

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION ................................................................. 1

A. Background of study .......................................................... 1
B. Problem Identification ....................................................... 5
C. Problem Limitation ............................................................ 5
D. Problem Formulation ......................................................... 6
E. Objectives and Benefits of Study ....................................... 6

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF THE RELATED THEORIES ...................... 8

A. Theoretical Review ............................................................ 8
1. The Concept of Reading Comprehension .................... 8
a. Definition of Reading Comprehension .................. 8
b. Strategy of Reading Comprehension ..................... 10
c. Reading Comprehension Models ........................... 11
d. Reading Comprehension Levels ............................ 12
e. Comprehension Difficulties in Reading ................ 13
f. Assessment of Reading Comprehension ................ 14
2. The Concept of Cohesion ............................................ 18
a. Definition of Cohesion ........................................... 18
b. Types of Cohesion ................................................. 20
1) Grammatical Cohesion .................................... 20
a) Reference .................................................... 20

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 b) Ellipsis and Substitution ............................ 21

2) Lexical Cohesion ............................................. 22

a) Repetition ................................................... 22
b) Synonym and Antonym ............................. 23
c) Hyponymy and Meronymy ........................ 25
B. Theoretical Framework and Paradigm ............................... 26
1. Theoretical Framework ................................................ 26
2. Paradigm ...................................................................... 28
C. Hypothesis Formulation ..................................................... 29

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ......................................... 30

A. Research Design ................................................................ 30
B. The Operational Definition of Variables ........................... 31
C. Population, Sample, and Sampling Technique .................. 32
D. Data Collection Method ..................................................... 33
E. Data Analysis Technique ................................................... 35

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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