Abstract:
This study aims to investigate strategies and types of peer scaffolding through writing processes. The samples of this study included the three students studying in the grade nine at Khuntanwittayakom School, Chiang Rai. From the purposive sampling of variation cases, there are three kinds of students that are low, intermediate, and good competent learners in an English subject. By choosing this kind of purposive sampling case, the researcher wanted to get data for analyzing qualitative research. The research procedures were conducted underlying three stages of writing process, namely pre-writing, while- writing, and post- writing by using six instructional plans. Data analysis was descriptive analysis analyzing the dialogues occurred during writing processes between the samples and their peers.
The results of this study showed that the students used peer scaffoldings strategies during the pre- writing stage and while-stage of writing to support vocabulary brainstorming, vocabulary meaning checking, and idea generation of unfamiliar vocabulary by talking to the self. During the post-stage of writing, the students engaged in peer scaffolding strategies for checking grammar, asking for helps about translations, and checking understanding of writing processes. Thus, peer scaffolding impacted the students writing processes in both word and sentence level. That is, after receiving scaffolding from the peers, the students were able to choose appropriate meaning of vocabulary. In addition, the students were able to use the vocabulary and the English translation learned from the peers to apply in their writing. Moreover, peer scaffolding during writing processes enabled to support the students in writing sentences grammatically. Importantly, there was an evidence of self-scaffolding occurred during the good competent learner talked to the self in order to write an unfamiliar vocabulary.