g. The teaching of listening at SMP SKKD
According to the School-Based Curriculum KTSP, listening is the language skill that should be mastered by students. The teaching of listening in the
Junior High School should refers to the standard competence and basic competence which is used as guidance for the teacher. They are as follows:
Table 1. Standard of Competence and Basic Competence in the Junior High School of Grade VIII in the First Semester.
Standard of Competence Basic Competence
Listening
1. Understanding the meaning of
short transactional and interpersonal conversation to
interact with the nearest environment.
1.1 Responding to the meaning of short transactional to get things done and
interpersonal socialization conversation accurately, fluently, and
acceptable to interact with the environment involving speech act:
asking, giving, and refusing service, asking, giving, and refusing things,
accepting, denying the fact, and asking and giving opinions.
1.2 Responding to the meaning of short transactional to get things done and
interpersonal socialization conversation accurately, fluently, and
acceptable to interact with the environment involving speech act:
inviting, accepting and refusing invitation, agreeingdisagreeing,
complimenting and congratulating.
2. Scaffolding
a. The Nature of Scaffolding
The term of scaffolding is actually, taken from the field of architecture. In the process of building a house, we will find any equipment such as iron ladder or
frame that is used to reach the higher part of the building and to sustain the new foundation. This equipment is called scaffolding. If the building has already been
able to support itself, gradually, the scaffolding will be removed. In the context of classroom learning, the term of scaffolding is described as
the temporary assistance that the teachers provide to help their students in completing the task or develop new understanding so that, they will be able to do
it by themselves. According to Wood, Bruner and Ross in Hammond 2001, scaffolding is defined as a metaphor to capture the nature of support and guidance
in learning. It means that scaffolding is a support that is designed to provide the assistance necessary to enable learners to accomplish tasks and develop
understandings that they would not quite to be able to manage on their own. Meanwhile,Maybin, Mercer and Steirer 1992:186 describe scaffolding as the
temporary but essential nature of the mentor’s assistance in supporting learners to carry out tasks succesfully.
Actually, scaffolding is closely related to the work of Vygotsky. The Vygotsky theory of socio-cultural and the zone of proximal development ZPD is
commonly regarded as the theoretical underpinnings of scaffolding. The Vygotsky’s main concept of the ZPD is supporting children’s active position in
their learning and assisting them in becoming self-regulated learners. Raymond
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