Actually, a textbook is one of the material references of teaching at school. It is used to run learning process. The selection of the textbooks determines the quality of the materials which will be delivered to the students. For that reason, the writer analyzed the grammatical cohesion in the textbooks for Tenth Grade of Senior High School, namely Pathway to English and English Zone. The purposes of this study was to find out the grammatical cohesion of recount text in Pathway to English and English Zone. And also, to find out a better book in grammatical cohesion side for tenth grade of senior high school.
This study used qualitative approach. In doing this research, the researcher used two steps. First, selecting textbooks and then deciding recount texts. The data analyzed by dividing and numbering sentences into clauses. After that, Putting the number of grammatical cohesive devices into tables based on its types. Then, the writer put the number of cohesive devices in the form of percentage. Finally, the writer made an interpretation based on the result.
In English Zone textbook, there are four recount texts. Text 1 and 2 contained complete grammatical cohesion. Text 3 and 4 contained only two types of grammatical cohesion (reference and conjunction). In Pathway to English textbook, there are three recount texts. Text 1 and 3 contained three types of grammatical cohesion (reference, ellipsis, conjunction). Text 2 contained complete grammatical cohesion. English zone is more recommend rather than Pathway to English, because English Zone categorize as good criteria. Meanwhile, Pathway to English in fair criteria.