IMPROVING ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE FOR VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL USING SCAFFOLDING TEHNIQUE

Abstract

Indonesia must prepare the high-skill categories needs for every aspects. One of the aspects is the
ability to compete in this era, the ability to communicate with other. Indonesian needs English
communicative skill to face the Industrial Revolution 4.0. The aims of the study are: to understand
Vocational High School students’ English competence and to understand the effect of Scaffolding
Tehnique on Improving English Communicative competence for Vocational High School. This research
used descriptive qualitative method. The study used a pre-test, post-test to know the result of the study:
the researcher tested the participants orally as the pre-test and post-test of study. In this research, the
population of the research is the first grade of Citra Medika Vocational High School. There were 2
classes and there were 54 students and all the students are the population of the research. The results
of independent sample t-test showed that there was a significant difference between the performance of
intervening and control groups (t = 4.60, p< .05) on posttest in such a way that the intervening group
outperformed in posttest