The Effect Of Applying Scaffolding Technique On The Students’ Writing Achievement By Using Movie Posters

This study was aimed at finding out the effect of applying Scaffolding Technique on the students‟ writing achievement by using movie posters. This study used the experimental quantitative design. The samples of this research were the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Aek Songsongan. There were class VIII-1 as the experimental class and VIII-2 as control class. Each class consisted of 30 students. The experimental class were taught by applying scaffolding technique by using movie posters while control class were taught without applying scaffolding technique by using movie posters. The instrument of collecting the data was writing test. The data were analyzed by using t-test. The calculation showed that tobserved (5.2252) was greater than t-table (0.2960) at the level of significance (α) 0.05 with degree of freedom (df) 28. It meant that applying Scaffolding Technique by using movie posters had significantly affected the students‟ writing achievement in writing descriptive text