The Effectiveness of Scientific and Scaffolding Approaches in Teaching Writing

Nurkholidah Nurkholidah, Margana Margana

2017

Abstract

This research aims to describe the effectiveness of scientific, scaffolding and conventional approaches in teaching writing of descriptive texts for VII grade students at SMP N 1 Brebes. This research used quasi-experimental method using pre-test and post-test. The population was all students of VII grade at SMP N 1 Brebes consisting of seven classes in the even semester of the academic year 2016/2017. The sample was students of VII D, E and G classes determined by using simple cluster random sampling technique. The instrument was writing test in the form of an essay. The validity of the instrument was content validity which was obtained through the consultation with experts (expert judgment). The inter-rater technique was used to test the reliability of the instrument with Pearson Product Moment Correlation. Normality test and homogeneity test were performed as the analysis of the test. Kolmogorov-Smirnov was used to test normality and Levene test was used to test homogeneity. Data analysis technique used was One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) followed by Scheffe test supported by SPSS 16.0 for windows program. The result of this research indicates that scientific, scaffolding and conventional approaches have a significant difference in effectiveness in teaching writing of descriptive texts for VII grade students at SMP N 1 Brebes indicated by (p) lower than 0.05.

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Nurkholidah N. and Margana M. (2017). The Effectiveness of Scientific and Scaffolding Approaches in Teaching Writing.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 632-637. DOI: 10.5220/0007172306320637


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@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Nurkholidah Nurkholidah and Margana Margana},
title={The Effectiveness of Scientific and Scaffolding Approaches in Teaching Writing},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={632-637},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007172306320637},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - The Effectiveness of Scientific and Scaffolding Approaches in Teaching Writing
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Nurkholidah N.
AU - Margana M.
PY - 2017
SP - 632
EP - 637
DO - 10.5220/0007172306320637