Prismawati, Nurul Indah (2018) Improving The Students’ Writing Descriptive Text by Applying The Scaffolding Technique at The Seventh Grade of MTs Muhammadiyah Metro in The Academic Year of 2017/2018. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

Descriptive textis one of text types in English learning. The descriptive writing deals to the senses, so it tells how something looks, feels, smells, tastes, and sounds. Many students consider that write a textis as difficult as write an essay.This condition was found by the researcher at the seventh grader of MTs Muhammadiyah Metroit is caused the students still difficult when they have to start describe about something. Moreover, the students are lack of enthusiasts in following the learning process. The students are also passive during teaching learning process.To improve the students‘ writing descriptive text, the researcher used scaffolding techniqueas the technique in learing process.

The researcher had outlined the problem in this research focused in writing descriptive text. The aimed of this researchwas to use the scaffolding techniqueto improvethe students‘ ability in writing descriptive text at the seventh graders of MTs Muhammadiyah Metro in academic year of 2017/2018 thatconsisted of 20 students. This research conducted in two cycles. This research was classroom action research consisted of 4 steps namely, planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. Test, observation, documentation, and field note were used as the data collecting methods.

Regarding to the research process, the researcher gave the pre-test for the students to know their writing descriptive score. Then, the researcher did the treatment for the students. In addition, the change of the students` writing descriptive text score could be known through post-test that had been given in every cycle. The test consisted 1 items of essay form. The result of the research illustrated the average of the students score in pre-test was 51.95 (15%), post-test 1 was 63.2 (20%) and post-test 2 was 74.6 (85%). It indicated that indicator of success has been achieved at least 85% students was passed the Minimum Standard Criteria (MSC) at least 70 and it is obvious that by using Scafolding technique could improve students in writing descriptive text. It means that this research was successful.

Key Words: Writing, Desciptive Text, Scaffolding Technique

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