In the application of language, the written form is the thing that requires the most
thought process where the writers have to concentrate in order to produce written
results as expected. The writers must understand and comprehend how to structure
sentences correctly, and also must paying attention to cohesion between
sentences. Cohesion is the textual quality and semantic relationship between one
element and another to make sentences appear to come together in a text. This
research aims to investigate the type of grammatical cohesion and the dominant
type of grammatical cohesion found in English article on Edukasi Lingua Sastra
journal. This research uses a qualitative method with the data collection technique
is document analysis. The result of this research is almost all the types of
grammatical cohesion in this research were found in every English article on
Edukasi Lingua Sastra Journal Volume 19 Number 1, April 2021 except for article
A Study of Request Strategies Used by EFL Baturaja University by Mila Arizah,
Merie Agustiani, and Karina D.K where no substitution type was found. The total
of data found was 3.235 items. It is divided into four type, they are reference with
2.041 items, substitution with 9 items, ellipsis with 185 items, and conjunction
with 1.000 items. If it showed in the percentage results is 63,1% of reference,
0,3% of substitution, 5,7% of ellipsis, and 30,9% of conjunction. So it can be
concluded that reference is the most dominant type of grammatical cohesion.
Key word: Grammatical Cohesion, English Article, Edukasi Lingua Sastra
Journal Volume 19 Number 1, April 2021