Writing Instruction for Students Using Google Translate with Scaffolding Method to Enhance Arabic Writing Skills

This research concerns the analysis of Indonesian and Arabic student paragraphs, the results of the writing learning process using the scaffolding method, and using Google Translate to improve the ability to write Arabic paragraphs. This study aims to obtain an overview of the quality of Arabic paragraphs and efforts to improve their writing skills and bridge the pros and cons between lecturers and students regarding using Google Translate in learning to write Arabic. Data was obtained from three students who had studied morph syntax in Arabic, representing students who received the highest, medium and lowest morph syntax scores. They were tasked with making a synopsis of the film they watched for 20 minutes using Indonesian. Next, they were asked to translate it into Arabic without using any dictionary or translation machine. Then, they were asked to translate the Indonesian text using Google Translate. After that, they compared the independent translation with the translation from Google Translate and revised the independent translation better. The results showed that the quality of their respective Arabic paragraphs got better after following the scaffolding process using Google Translate