Peranan kohesi dalam membina ketekstualan teks berita Arab dalam talian

Abstract

The new millennium witnesses an era of globalisation that has prompted the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and multimedia technology throughout the world. This new wave touches all spheres of life including language. Today, any information and news can be obtained and surfed on line anytime and anywhere. This scenario has shifted enormously a new paradigm in introducing the latest methodology and strategy of interacting with the Arabic me-dia to the Arabic students and language practitioners in Malaysia. Thus, it is important for every text in the on line Arabic media to prac-tice and display several standards of textuality in order to make the meaning of the text contextual, systematic and sensible by Arabic lan-guage users. The most important standard of textuality is definitely cohesion. Based on this assumption, this article attempts to describe in detail on how cohesion can build linguistic relationships between elements and segments of the text and would therefore give the text a form of discourse which is context-friendly.