PROBLEMS ON INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ PARAGRAPHS: A CASE STUDY AT UIN MAULANA MALIK IBRAHIM MALANG

Ideas within student’s scientific works must meet conditions, one of which is written in a good and correct paragraph. Ironically, international students at UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang still make some mistakes upon writing papers even though they have been equipped with Indonesian language competence since the first semester. The current study aims to identify problems on students’ paragraphs, find their factors, spot alternative solutions. It employed qualitative approach text analysis or discourse analysis. data were form linguistic practices papers. They collected, classified, analyzed according research focus. Three kinds issues found Maliki Malang: not meeting elements cohesion coherence, incomplete paragraph development, unsequential development. Each error supported another