Titania Mariana Pandie Pengarang LENI AMELIA SUEK Dosen Pembimbing 2 Johnson W. Haan Dosen Pembimbing 1 Yanpitherzon Liunokas Ketua Penguji Leni Amelia Suek Penguji 2 Johnson W. Haan Penguji 1

The research problems of this study are: First, what types of grammatical cohesive devices found in the text? Second, what types of lexical cohesive devices found in the text? Third, how each types used to link text elements in the IELTS Reading Text? The aims of this research are: to identify and describe grammatical cohesive devices that are employed in the IELTS reading text, to identify and describe lexical cohesive devices that are employed in the IELTS reading text, and to explain how do the cohesive devices link the text element in the IELTS reading text. The research method used was descriptive qualitative method. The data resource was primarily the IELTS Reading Text three by Guy Brook-Hart and Vanessa Jakeman Band 4-5 Student’s Book Published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. The writer used document analysis as the technique of data collection. The data analysis techniques were: identifying and describing. The results shows that all the types of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices were employed in the text. The total occurrences of the grammatical cohesive devices in the text were 225 times, and the total occurrences of the lexical cohesive devices in the text were 20 times. The grammatical cohesive devices link text elements grammatically or through structural content. Lexical cohesive devices link the text elements based on lexical content and background of knowledge. Keywords: Cohesive devices, Grammatical cohesive devices, Lexical cohesive devices, IELTS, Link.