The Use of Scaffolding Technique to Teach Recount Text Writing

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of using scaffolding technique in teaching writing especially recount text writing to Year-10 Students of SMA Karya Sekadau in Academic Year 2015/2016. It was a pre-experimental study with a single group pre-test post-test design. The sample was Year-10 students that consisted of 29 students. The data were collected by giving pre-test before the treatment and post-test after the treatment in writing test. The test was performance test in written form.. Pre-test and post-test were the same test with the same command. The data were analyzed by Effect Size (ES) formula. The finding showed that the effect size of teaching recount text writing by using scaffolding technique was 1.210 (ES > 0.5) and categorized high