The effectiveness of using scaffolding technique towards students� skill in writing descriptive text: a quasi-experimental study of eight grade of SMP Al-Zahra Indonesia
| Main Author: | Yulis Yasinta |
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| Format: | Bachelors |
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Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan
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Daftar Isi:
- The objective of the study was to find the empirical evidence of whetherscaffolding is effective towards students� skill in writing descriptive text. The samples of this research were the eighth grade students of SMP Al-Zahra Indonesia. They were class 8A as the controlled class and class 8C as the experimental class. Each class consisted of 17 students. The writer used purposeful sampling technique to choose the sample from the whole students or population. The method used in this research was a quantitative method. In addition, the design used was a quasi experimental study and the instrument of this research was a written test. To attain the reliability of the test instrument, the researcher used rubric of scoring namely an analytic scoring which was adopted from John Anderson to score the students� writing on the pre-test and the post-test. The result of this research was that the students� pre-test mean score (x) of the experimental class was 69.47 while the students� post-test mean score (x)was 77.02. In the contrary, the students� pre-test mean score (x) of the controlled class was 71.73 and the post-test mean score (x)was 73.79. The significant effect was shown by the students� post-test mean score (x)of the experimental class which was treated by scaffolding technique was greater than the post-test mean score of the controlled class which was not treated by scaffolding technique. The result of statistical hypothesis test found that on significance level 5%, tvaluewas 3.837 while ttable was .2.120 or tvalue>ttable. Thus, the H0 (Null Hypothesis) was rejected and The H1 (alternative hypothesis) was accepted. It proved that the application of scaffolding technique is effective towards the students� skill in writing descriptive text.