THE ANALYSIS OF THEMATIC PROGRESSION IN EVALUATING EFL WRITING

There have been efforts to solve students’s problems of writing difficulties in EFL class. However, the investigation on the features of the students’s written discourse regarding the Thematic Progression is rarely done. The present study aims to explore that the notion of thematic progression can be helpful as an important tool at the level of discourse for the teacher to evaluate EFL writing. The focus in the study is to answer several research questions in which involving the thematic progression, and textual cohesion and coherence in EFL writing. To address this issue the writers have analysed a sample of 20 compositions written by students learning English as Foreign language in term of their thematic progression. The data for this investigation were collected through interview, classroom observation, and the review of students’ written works. This analysis has enabled the writers to find the common problems they had for textual cohesion and coherence in EFL writing.