The Effect of Using Scaffolding Technique on The Tenth Grade Students’ Descriptive Text Writing Achievement at SMA Negeri 1 Arjasa

Abstract

This research was conducted to investigate the effect of using Scaffolding technique on the tenth grade students’ descriptive text writing achievement at SMA Negeri 1 Arjasa in the 2017/2018 academic year. Writing is a complex skill that needs a long process to be done. The students often find it difficult to produce a good writing, from generating ideas into making their final writing. The teacher should find an effective teaching technique for teaching writing. Thus, the researcher conducted an experimental research by using Scaffolding Technique to teach writing through the process of writing. This technique involved a process on its implementation, which in each step was provided supports or assisstance. The participants of this research were the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Arjasa in the 2017/2018 academic year. There was a homogenity analysis done to all of the population, all the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Arjasa. The data for homogenity analysis were taken from the previous English writing scores which were given by the English teacher to the researcher. After analyzing the students’ previous writing scores by using One Way ANOVA in SPSS Aplication, it was found that the population was homogenous. Thus, the researcher used lottery to determine the experimental group and the control group. The design of this research was quasi-experimental research with pottest only design. The main data of this research were taken by using posttest that was administered after the experimental group had received the treatment. There were two groups involved in this research, the experimental group and the control group. These groups received different treatment from the researcher. The experimental, which was the X IPA 1, was taught writing by Scaffolding Technique as the treatment. Meanwhile, the control group, which was X IPS 3, was taught writing without using Scaffolding Technique, but by using teaching technique usually given by the teacher. After the treatment given, a posttest was administered to both groups. It was given after both groups had been taught twice by the researcer. The posttest was a writing test of writing a descriptive text. The results of the posttest were analyzed by using Independent Sample T- test formula in SPSS application. Based on the calculation in the analysis, the result showed that the value of Sig(2-tailed) was 0.001, it was lower than 0.05. It means the null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative hypothesis was accepted. It indicated that there was a significant effect of using Scaffolding Technique on the tenth grade students’ descriptive writing at SMA Negeri 1Arjasa. This result gave a conlusion that Scaffolding Technique could be used as an effective teaching technique to teach writing to the students.