Applying Peer Scaffolding to Enhance the EFL Vocational Students’ Speaking Skills
Journal Title: Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature - Year 2019, Vol 6, Issue 2
Abstract
The preliminary study showed that the students at English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in the vocational higher education context found the speaking skills as the most difficult ones to learn. The students also declared that unsupportive English learning atmosphere in the class used to make the students reluctant to speak. This phenomenon also leads the students to have lack of confidence to speak English in the class. Thus, the researcher conducted experimental research using Peer Scaffolding approach using Vygotsky’s theory to check whether it improves the students’ speaking skills. The research involves 156 vocational college students in the second semester of Multimedia Study Program at Politeknik Negeri Media Kreatif Jakarta. After analyzing the data taking from the assessments, interviews, and observation field notes during the study; the findings confirm that the peer scaffolding enhances the speaking skill performances. As the results expose that the peer scaffolding builds the more supportive learning conditions in which the students can give mutual help to improve the speaking exposures, the peer scaffolding is recommended as one of the alternatives to improve the students’ speaking skills.
Authors and Affiliations
Ince Dian Aprilyani Azir
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP640101
- DOI 10.30605/25409190.v6.149-157
- Views 100
- Downloads 0
Politeness Indicators in Nigeria Legislative Discourse
In every human interaction, interlocutors strive to maintain appropriate decorum and politeness in order to avoid undue feeling of not being ‘nice’ or being insensitive to co-participant’s self-esteem or image. This cult...
Think Talk Write Strategy toward Students’ Writing Ability
The objective of this research was to find out whether or not the implementation of Think Talk Write (TTW) strategy improves students’ writing ability. The researcher applied quasi-experimental method. The population of...
Omission: Common Simple Present Tense Errors in Students' Writing of Descriptive Text
This research is aimed to determine and to describe the errors in using simple present tenses in writing descriptive texts made by students, especially in the class D of sixth semester of English Education Department at...
A Case Study of Code-switching in a City of East China
This study attempts to observe how natives of different age groups in a city of south-east China switch between Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese), the H language variety, and the local dialect, the L variety, the linguistic f...
The Reflection of Regency Gentleman in Pride and Prejudice and Emma by Jane Austen
This study is aimed to present the nature of gentleman in the Regency era as reflected in the selected novels of Jane Austen, entitled Pride and Prejudice and Emma. The men who are categorized as gentleman are shifted ov...