STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING PARAGRAPH OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM AT THIRD SEMESTER STUDENTS OF MERANGIN UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Writing is one of skills that should be mastered by students. Writing proses of start of writing a paragraph. Writing paragraph is one of the most important in writing skills. Researchers found many problems came in third semester students of English Education Study Program of Merangin University, first many students didn’t understand how to develop their ideas in paragraph. Secondly, they also are hard to apply the grammar and mechanics of paragraph. Thirdly, students are less of vocabulary and the organization of writing paragraph. Based on the problem the purposed of the research was to find out about students’ ability in writing paragraph at third semester students English Education Program Study of Merangin University. This research was descriptive research. It was conducted in English Education Program study of Merangin University. The population was the third semester students that consists of 22 students. The researchers used total sampling. The instrument of this research was writing test. The researcher gave the students about the theme that should be develop in paragraph. There is some aspect of writing paragraph (content, Organization, Vocabulary, Grammar, Mechanics). Based on the research finding and data analysis, there were 3 students got score (A) 13.6%, 13 students got score (A-) 59%, and 6 students got score (B+) 27,2. It shows that the highest score was very high ability in writing paragraph.