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Data from Interview The researcher interviewed the teacher to get the information about how
scaffolding was implemented and the technique that the teacher usually used to teach recount text for the students. The researcher analyzed the data from the
interview in the form of field notes.
G. Research Procedure
Before conducting the research, the researcher gathered the data about the technique that the teacher usually used in teaching a recount text to the students
and the process of implementing the scaffolding in writing a recount text in the 8
th
grade Happiness SMP Joannes Bosco. After having enough information about the process of implementing the scaffolding, the researcher distributed the
questionnaires to the students after they wrote the recount texts three times. After analyzing the data in the questionnaires, the researcher interviewed some students
to clarify some questions that they answered unclearly. Then, the researcher also analyzed
the students’ error in the first, second, and third writings. The researcher described the data and analyzed them to see what the benefits of implementing
scaffolding.
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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter is divided into two parts. The first part is the research findings and the second part is the discussion. In the first part, the researcher presents the
data which was gathered by interviewing the teacher, writing some notes in field notes, distibuting questionnaires, interviewing the students, and also analyzing the
students’ writings on recount text as the additional data. Then, in the second part, the researcher discusses the research findings in order to answer the research
questions.
A. Research Findings
In this part, there are two sections. The first section is the process of scaffolding implemented for the 8
th
grade students of SMP Joannes Bosco in writing recount texts. The next section is the benefits of scaffolding in writing
recount texts for the 8
th
grade students of SMP Joannes Bosco Yogyakarta.
1. The Process of Scaffolding Implemented for the 8
th
Grade Students of SMP Joannes Bosco in Writing Recount Texts
Before implementing the scaffolding, the teacher explained about the recount text briefly to the students. The explanation is related to the aim, the
generic structure, and the language feature of recount text. Here, the students already knew the basic knowledge of writing a recount text. After the students
already got the information about recount text, they started writing their recount
