Scaffolding Talks in Teaching Speaking Skill to the HigherEducation Students, Why Not?
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https://doi.org/10.53797/aspen.v2i1.6.2022Keywords:
teaching English, scaffolding talks, higher education studentsAbstract
The purpose of teaching and learning English in Indonesia is to provide the student with knowledge in order to make them be ablet to communicate using English. This means that the students are expected to understand and gain the informational literacy especially for the university’s students. To attain such literacy level, it becomes such a gaint task for the teachers and lecturers as they have task to enable the students to use English communicatively. This research tried to reveal the functions of scaffolding talks of English classroom in higher education. This research used qualitative methodologies and social constructivism theory approach. The data collection was conducted by interviewing two English lecturers form different faculties, observing the classroom activity, recording the classroom activity in the form of audio and video record, and transcribe the record into the written form. The result showed that there were some functions of scaffolding talk in general, they are to engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate. Both of the teachers have conducted those functions in the English.
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