Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL)
Vol 3, No 2 (2013): JEFL

HELPING STUDENTS UNDERSTAND THE TEXT THROUGH SCAFFOLDING

Nugraha, Deni Sapta ( Indonesian Civil Aviation Institutes, Curug – Tangerang)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Dec 2015

Abstract

This study reported the practice of helping adult students to comprehend the texts in Indonesian Civil Aviation Institute majoring at Air traffic controller programme, Curug - Tangerang. The article demonstrated of how teacher helped them to comprehend the text during 100 minutes reading class in three meetings. It was employed as their input session to acquire context, knowledge and specific vocabulary in aviation or what so called as phraseology. Students were asked to construct some questions dealing with the text both literal and inferential comprehension suggested by Barrett (in Eanes 1997). The result showed that students attained three main bonuses; they get used to build questions that impact to their grammatical awareness, they get used to communicate orally, and they are successful to comprehend the text thoroughly by acquiring new knowledge, vocabulary as well as context.Keywords: reading comprehension, text, scaffolding

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http://e-journal.iain-palangkaraya.ac.id/index.php

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Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL) is an open access academic, scholarly peer-reviewed journal and follows a double blind review policy. The Journal is scheduled for publication biannually, in March and September, with the first issue to appear in March 2011. This Journal has been ...