Open AccessParagraph and Its Development Pattern On The Essay Writing Of Elementary School Students
Author(s) -
Herman Budiyono
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of language teaching and education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2614-1191
pISSN - 2598-2303
DOI - 10.22437/ijolte.v4i2.11214
Subject(s) - paragraph , mathematics education , quality (philosophy) , population , psychology , contradiction , mathematics , statistics , computer science , linguistics , sociology , philosophy , epistemology , demography , world wide web
This study aimed to describe the quality of the paragraph and its development pattern in the essay writing of elementary school (Sekolah Dasar – SD) students in Jambi City (Kota Jambi – KJ) (SD-KJ). This study utilized a "quantitative descriptive" design. The population was all essays written by the fifth-grade students of SD-KJ. The sample of this research was 35 paragraphs from the essay writing of the fifth-grade students of SD-KJ. The data analysis steps were searching for frequency distribution of paragraph quality and development pattern; grouping the paragraph frequency distribution according to their quality; counting the percentage of each paragraph quality and type of development pattern; and presenting the results. Regarding to paragraph quality, the results are: (1) paragraph completeness, good (5.71%), poor (68.57%), and bad (25.70%); (2) paragraph unity, good (34.58%); poor (51.42%); and bad (14.28%); (3) paragraph order, good (28.57%); poor (51.42%); and bad (20%); and (4) paragraph coherence, good (54.28%); poor (34.28%); and bad (11.42%). Reffering to the implementation of the paragraph development pattern, the results are paragraph development pattern of comparison and contradiction: 20%, analogy: 5.71%, giving examples: 8.57%, cause and effect: 48.57%; general-specific or specific-general: 11.42%, and classification: 5.71%.