Scaffolding and the Teaching of Writing Within ZPD: Doing Scaffolded Writing (A Short Case Study)

This paper aims at explaining the concept of scaffolding within ZPD, providing in-depth analysis, and illustrating how scaffolding, as a tool of assistance, can be used in the teaching of writing. Scaffolding, as a concept, has been originated from Vygotsky’s theoretical notion- the zone of proximal development (ZPD). As it is known, ZPD has been originally constructed to account for the gap between the actual level and the potential level of development of the individual learners. Briefly, the first part of the paper showed how the notions of ZPD, internalization and the concepts of activated learning and collaborative writing within ZPD were briefly presented in the literature review. Likewise, the second part of discussed important concepts in the literature such as scaffolding, principles of scaffolding, scaffolded writing, scaffolding learning. In the third part of this paper, different studies of scaffolding and the teaching of writing in the EFL contexts were briefly discussed and critically presented. The last part of the study briefly presented and discussed the findings of a short one-month case study of my five-year-old son.

Flipped Classroom Activity Using the PTA Model in an Introductory Sociology Course

This scaffolded writing-to-learn activity incorporates a number of Writing Across the Curriculum-based suggestions that draw upon the strengths of student reflection, the PTA (prioritization, translation, and analogization) model of concentric thinking, and the benefits of a flipped-classroom approach to learning. Thus, the purpose of this article is to explain what one model for structuring a flipped classroom that purposefully integrates writing in the PTA model looks like and to provide a concrete example of a flipped-classroom activity that I have utilized in numerous introductory sociology courses.

Peningkatan Kemampuan Menulis Pengalaman Dengan Menggunakan Bahasa yang Berkesan dengan Menggunakan Model Scaffolded Writing

Upaya untuk memotivasi belajar peserta didik diarahkan kepada proses belajar mengajar, dalam hal ini penggunaan model pembelajaran yang baik dan benar dalam rangka pencapaian tujuan yang optimal disesuaikan dengan kegiatan belajar mengajar yang berlangsung. Karena adanya penataan dan perencanaan yang baik dan optimal terutama dalam penggunaan model pembelajaran yang tepat dan sesuai dalam proses pembelajaran maka dapat menghasilkan peserta didik yang mempunyai potensi serta memiliki kemampuan intelektual sehingga dapat meningkatkan motivasi belajarnya. Pada pembelajaran Bahasa Indonesia, banyak hal yang menuntut peserta didik untuk dapat menulis dengan benar dengan kosa kata yang baik,tepat dan benar. Di sisi lain guru berusaha menjelaskan dan memberikan kesan yang bermakna kepada peserta didik untuk memahami materi yang dipelajarinya. Belajar akan lebih bermakna jika peserta didik mengalami sendiri apa yang dipelajarinya.