Abstract :
Teaching English aims to master the four basic language skills, one of the
four components is writing skills. Writing is an important place in most
English courses. Writing is an activity to produce written language that is
going to be read (Hamadouche, 2010). Writing paragraph is an activity to
express feelings, ideas, arguments and thought into written form to be one
sentence. Using portfolio assessments allows students to confidently
demonstrate their true performance to continue writing and developing
their ideas through their own writing and also to observe student learning
progress during the learning process. This study aimed to describe the
implementation and the students? receptions of portfolio assessment in
learning paragraph writing. The study used descriptive qualitative design.
The subject of this study is the English lecturer and 25 students? of English
education program in 2nd semester morning class at STKIP PGRI
Sidoarjo. The instrument of this study are observation checklist and
questionnaire. This study shows that the implementation of portfolio
assessment can make inferences about individuals language. The result of
questionnaire shows that 15% strongly agree, 54% agree, 28% neutral, 3%
disagree, 0% strongly disagree. It indicates that using portfolio assessment
makes the students active and can helped them to write a good essay. This
study concludes that portfolio assessment more flexible, independently,
show the complete learning process and results to learning paragraph
writing. Moreover, the further researcher should enrich with another varied
design on portfolio assessment that may improve the strategy to learning
paragraph writing.