APPLYING THEME AND RHEME IN INDONESIAN EFL STUDENTS’ WRITING: AN ATTEMPT TO IMPROVE COHESION AND COHERENCE

The notions of Theme and Rheme have widely been explored in research on linguistics. However, little research has been carried out about Theme and Rheme in relation to the writing class, referring to the Indonesian students. This paper discusses the theoretical framework of Theme and Rheme and the analysis of Theme and Rheme in some texts of the Indonesian university students of the second semester to improve cohesion and coherence. It has been demonstrated that the understanding and the application of these notions have enabled the students to evaluate their own compositions and improve the coherence of their compositions. It is, therefore, important to teach Theme and Rheme in a writing class.