The effect of scaffolding on students’ ability in writing descriptive text at X Grade of MAN 1 Padangsidimpuan
| Main Author: | Azizah, Nur |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2017
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| Online Access: |
http://etd.iain-padangsidimpuan.ac.id/3747/1/13%20340%200022.pdf http://etd.iain-padangsidimpuan.ac.id/3747/ |
Daftar Isi:
- This research focused on solving problems in students’ writing descriptive text at grade X of MAN 1 Padangsidimpuan. The students’ problems were: 1) Students’ writing ability were low; 2) students lack of vocabulary; 3) The students were lack to develop their idea to organize a sentence into a paragraph ; 4) The students confuse of hints. Beside the students’ problem, teacher’s strategy also became a problem in learning writing descriptive text. The teacher still used the conventional strategy in teaching writing descriptive text. The purpose of this research was to examine the effect Scaffolding on Students’ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text at X Grade of MAN 1 Padangsidimpuan. The method was used in this research was experimental research. The population was the X grade MAN 1 Padangsidmpuan. They were 7 classes. Two classes were chosen randomly as the sample. They were X MIA-3 consist of 37 students (experimental class) and X MIA-4 consist of 36 students (control class). It was taken after conducting normality and homogeneity test. The data were derived from pre-test and post-test. To measure the data, the researcher used t-test formula to know the significant of hypothesis. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that mean score of experimental class after using scaffolding was higher than control class. Mean score of experimental class before using scaffolding was 69.2 and mean score after using scaffolding was 79.16. Meanwhile, the mean score of control class in pre-test was 67.3 and in post-test was 68.55. Besides it, the score of tcount was bigger than ttable (5.413>2.000). It means that the hypothesis alternative (Ha) was accepted. It was concluded that there was a significant effect of scaffolding on students’ ability in writing descriptive text at X grade of MAN 1 Padangsidimpuan.