SCAFFOLDING FOR SKILL IMPROVEMENT EFL
BEGINNER-STUDENTS
Bella Frisma Ningrum
Abstract
To help students achieve their optimum learning, teachers should guide the students to improve their skills. One of the teaching-techniques applied by teachers is scaffolding. Through scaffolding, teachers give the opportunity to students to perform and practice in class. However, teacher in one of the junior high schools in Banyubiru reported that seventh grade students required learning from the basic level because most of them still have low command of English. This study aims to explore what scaffolding goals, scaffolding types and scaffolding instruments applied by seventh grade teachers in one of junior high school in Banyubiru. In this study, observation and interview were used to collect the data. The data were teachers’ scaffolding which were classifed into three components : scaffolding goal, scaffolding type and scaffolding instrument based on Vygotsky’s theory. The result of this study shows that teachers used various scaffolding instruments, applied soft scaffolding type and had several scaffolding goals as their scaffolding referential in teaching learning process. This study can be useful for teachers to improve their ability about teaching especially when they teach from the basic level and apply scaffolding in the classroom in order to help students to optimize their learning.
