Cohesive Paragraphs Writing Performed by The First Grade Students of Sma Kristen 1 Kupang In Academic Year 2021/2022

Abstract

This Article is entitled “Cohesive Paragraph Writing performed by the First Grade Students of SMA Kristen 1 Kupang in the Academic Year 2021/2022”. The Aims of this study were to know the level of Ability of Students in Writing Cohesive Paragraph and to find out difficulties faced by Students In SMA Kristen 1 Kupang in Writing Cohesive Paragraphs. Since the students have an equal competence in studying English, thirty-five students have been randomly taken as subjects of this research. Descriptive qualitative method was employed to describe the aims of research. The instrument of this research cohesive were observation and writing task. based on the data analysis it can be concluded that the Ability of student’s level in writing cohesive paragraph grades achievement, from thirty-five students which have writing task, 7 students were excellent which got the 80-90 means and 9 students got 75. The mean of student’s grade achievement got the total grade of correct to these answers 65%, means mostly they were able to use the cohesive paragraph in writing. The test was the writing task that consists of 20 numbers the result shows that more than half of students could do this test it is proved by the percentage of total of students who have done correctly was 67%. The students were able to do this test because they understand and have knowledge of cohesive paragraph.