Scaffolding Technique: The Answer to Students’ Writing Problems  

Oleh:

Isnaini, Yulia ; Saputri, Denok Sari

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 3, page 28-37.
Topik: writing ability; scaffolding; process writing approach; classroom action research
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This study was intended to apply scaffolding technique as a teaching technique to solve the problems in the teaching and learning of writing report text. The problems were the students had difficulties to gather, develop and organize their ideas effectively, having grammar difficulties and they also had low motivation. The researcher therefore decided to use scaffolding as a teaching technique as an effective solution to solve this problem. The research design used in this study was a Collaborative Classroom Action Research. The collaboration covers the process ofdesigning the lesson plan, determining the criteria of success, implementing the action, observing and doing reflections. The research procedure was planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. The subjects of this study were 32 eleventh graders of XI IPA 6 at SMAN 5 Mataram in academic year 2012/2013. The research instruments were interview, questionnaire, observation checklists, field notes, and a writing task. In scaffolding, five stages of writing process are implemented; prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. The initial idea in scaffolding is giving students sufficient support in the form of information report scaffolding diagram, guidelines and other form of assistances. At the end of the research, based on the research findings, 31 out of 32 students passed the standard score and students’ response showed that there was 78.1% of students agreed that scaffolding technique helped them to organize ideas and vocabularies. 53.1% said they felt motivated, and 68.7% of them showed pleasure in joining the activities.

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