THE INFLUENCE OF THE APPLICATION OF VISUAL SCAFFOLDING
STRATEGY ON THE STUDENTS COMPETENCE
IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
AT THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF SMPN 15 CIREBON
ENDEDES : The Influence of the Application of Visual Scaffolding Strategy on the
Students’ Competence in Writing Descriptive Text at the First Year
Students of SMPN 15 CIREBON
Language is the important role in our life. English is an international language
and it spoken by a half of the population in the world. Writing is one of skill which
very important in English competence. The mastery of English is necessary for
everybody in Indonesia to face the social relation and the competition era. Besides
reading, speaking and listening, writing skill is rather difficult mastered. The others
skill is compounded in writing because the student who has good writing skill, he or
she is good in others skill.
The use of suitable strategy is important thing to the teacher. Visual
scaffolding strategy is one of fifty strategies in teaching and learning process. Visual
scaffolding is a strategy for teaching English Language Learners (ELLs) that utilizes
drawings, photographs and other visuals in order to help students to better understand
the language used in each lesson. This strategy encourages active involvement from
all students in each lesson.
The research has a purpose to know the influence of the application of visual
scaffolding strategy on the students’ competence in writing descriptive text. The
research which is used in the research is empiric research and the method which is
used in the research is quantitative method. the writer uses four kinds of techniques in
collecting the data namely observation, interview, test, and questionnaire. To find out
the data quantitative, the writer analyzes the data based on the result of the tests
namely the test of descriptive text. The technique of analysis data for influence
research by using the formula of product moment correlation by Pearson.
To know the result of the students’ response of visual scaffolding strategy,
the writer use questionnaire form which consisting of 20 items to measure behavior
and opinion of students. The students have a good response to the application of
visual scaffolding in measuring their writing competence because the students who
choose strongly agree are 33.80%, the students who choose agree are 41.45%, the
students who choose undecided are 13.10%, the students who choose disagree are
10.35%, and the students who choose strongly disagree are 1.30%.
After the research findings have been found and analyzed, the writer gets the
conclusions that the average result of the students’ response on the application of
visual scaffolding strategy is 78.97. The students’ competence in writing descriptive
text the result is 79.02. The influence of the application of visual scaffolding strategy
on the students’ competence in writing descriptive text is a positive correlation.
Taking a point of view from the result of the value of ‘r’ product moment (0.87),
which the value of it is between 0.70-0.90. It means that the correlation between X
variable Y variable has significant and positive correlation and the hypothesis is
accepted
