THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SCAFFOLDING METHOD ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT

This study is about the effectiveness of scaffolding method on students' speaking achievement, and it is aimed to know effectiveness of scaffording method on students' speaking skill. It was done at Universitas Kristen Indonesia on students' speaking class of batch 2017. The method of the study is classroom action research, which was carried out within 2 cycles. The instrument of the study used was test sheet and observation sheet and the data taken using the instruments were analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The result of the study shows that scaffolding method is effective on improving students' speaking achievement. ding can improve students' speaking skills. It is concluded that scaffolding method is a good method to be implemented at speaking class, and the lecturers are suggested to use scaffolding method when teaching speaking in the classroom.