DEVELOPING MODEL FOR TEACHING PARAGRAPH WRITING USING THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERNS WITH JINGLE BUTTON TECHNIQUE

writing is a productive skill. A good writing is one that is cohesive and coherent. Cohesion and coherence are essential textual components to create organized and comprehensiveness of the texts. To be able to write a good text, it needs some degree of organization and planning. This research and development approach was intended to develop a model for teaching paragraph writing using thematic progression patterns with jingle button technique. The subject of this research was the students of English Department of Tidar University of Magelang (UTM). This research was conducted in three phases. The first was the exploration phase which consists of evaluating the model of teaching paragraph writing used in English Department of UTM. The second was the prototype development phase where the prototype model was developed. The last was testing phase. The results of the research indicated that the lecturing model was used dominatly in teaching paragraph writing. In addition to that, thematic progression patterns with jingle button technique was needed and effective for teaching paragraph writing. These findings recommended that thematic progression patterns with jingle button technique (TP-JB model) could be adopted as a model for teaching paragraph writing