ELT Worldwide: Journal of English Language Teaching
Vol 6, No 1 (2019)

An Analysis of Paragraph Writing Abilities of English Department Students UNM

Indrawaty Asfah (Universitas Negeri Makassar)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Jun 2019

Abstract

Studies on the errors of linguistic elements in students’ writings have been carried out. Students learning English as a Foreign Language from various universities seem tomake the time same type of errors, for example in aspects of tenses, verb forms, perpositions, subject-verb agreement, word order, and passive contrainst (Rahman et al. 2016; Murrow, 2004; Rahman, 1994; & Rahman & Rasyid). This study is expected to find the weaknessess of students of English Department, Faculty of Languages and Literature in terms of paragraph writing. In particular, this research examined the ability of students to write or develop paragraphsin terms of unity, coherence, and development aspects. The findings of this study will be useful for instructors/lecturers of Writing couses especially in developing syllabus and effective writing exercises.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ELT

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

ELT Worldwide is a Journal of English Language Teaching published by the English Language Education Graduate Program of the State University of Makassar, Indonesia. This journal publishes research articles of English Language Education practices around the world. The editors welcome experts and ...