46 study program never offers a particular teaching strategy or method to English Club
tutors. Bu Yunia, as the representative of PGSD USD for English Club course, gives tutors freedom to use any kind of teaching strategy and method. Moreover,
she also gives the tutor freedom to design learning materials, learning level in any level of English Club, assignments, and assessments. For the complete result of the
interview, see Appendix 1. Therefore, as there is not a particular teaching strategy offered by the study
program to tutors, this research would like to provide a teaching reference for English Club tutors. The new teaching strategy aims not only to help students to
be more proficient in English and to improve their self-capacity, but also to transform them to be independent English learners as English Club is conducted
up to semester four only see the result of the interview in point 5. This research, consequently, has the same goal with the course.
2. The Students’ Initial Attitudes on English Learning Process
After conducting the interview and finding the goal of the course, the researcher distributed pre-research questionnaire to 26 students of Class 1D.1.
They were the respondents of the research. The questionnaire aimed to gather information about the respondents’ opinion about their learning English experience
and the kind of English learning way they needed to have in the class. In the questionnaire, the researcher developed some statements that were
derived from the theories about scaffolding by Roehler and Cantlon 1997, Northern Illinous University 2008, and Bransford, et al. 2000 and the theory of
writing by Raimes 1983. It was scaffolding as an instructional strategy that the
47 researcher would like to research. However, the researcher would like to know
whether the characteristics of scaffolding learning were suitable to what the students need. Therefore, the underlying theories of the research were transformed
into statements of the questionnaire. Firstly, from the questionnaire, the researcher gathered the information
about the students’ English learning experience. From the questionnaire, 85 of the 26 students said that English is difficult. Their difficulties in learning English
are various. Here is the list of the difficulties that are supported by more than a half of the students:
Aspect of difficulty Supported by of the students
The use of past tense 85
Sentence structure 85
Content organization 65
Vocabulary or diction 61
Next, from the questionnaire, 77 of the students said that their most effective way to learn English is learning in class under the guidance of a tutor or
a teacher or an expert. Meanwhile, that way of learning English can be more interesting and easier if the learning topic is their personal experience and the topic
they like. This statement was supported by 92 of the students. In details, in the learning process, 100 of the students needed to be told
the end goal of the learning process. Further, in the process of achieving the goal, 77 of the students needed to be involved in the learning process, and 100
students needed modelling before carrying out tasks given. Moreover, from the Table
4.1. Students’ Difficulties in Learning English
48 questionnaire, 81 of the students agreed that they want to be able to learn English
independently outside of English Club. For the complete result of pre-research questionnaire analysis, see Appendix 4.
In summary, the result of the pre-research questionnaire shows that the students need a learning way that can help them solve their difficulties in learning
English above. In fact, it is scaffolding because it needs to be carried out in a class and under a guidance of an expert Northern Illinois University, 2008.
Furthermore, being invited to give participation and being given a model before doing tasks actually refers to the five types of scaffolding by Roehler and Cantlon
1997. What is more, the students’ hope to be able to learn English independently is in line with the end goal of scaffolding as an instructional strategy.
3. Students’ Current Level
