Students’ Skill in Paragraph Writing Subject of English Department FKIP UNES Padang

Widya Juli Astria, Lailatul Husna, Dwiko Ramadhan

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The aim of this research is to find out students’ skill in writing paragraph. The research took in the first year students of English department, FKIP UNES Padang. The sample of this research was 15 students. All of the students have taken Paragraph writing subject at the first-year of 2023/2024 academic year. This research used descriptive research methodology. The instrumentation which used in this research was a writing test. The finding of the research showed that the students’ skill in part of using chronological order is great. In line with it, their vocabulary and mechanic are also good.  Meanwhile, some students were still lack in the developing idea part. Then, there were some students not able to apply correct grammar in their paragraph. In a whole, there were 36,3% of the students got high score in writing paragraph. In concslusion, the students’ skill in writing paragraph was categorized as very good.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15548/imlah.v6i1.9679

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