The Use of Stick Puppets to Improve The Seventh Graders' Speaking Skill of A Junior High School in Bantaran

Wahyuni, Luluk (2022) The Use of Stick Puppets to Improve The Seventh Graders' Speaking Skill of A Junior High School in Bantaran. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Luluk Wahyuni, 2022: The use of Stick Puppets to Improve The Seventh Graders’ Speaking Skill of a Junior High School in Bantaran

Key Words: Students’ Speaking Skill, Stick Puppet, Classroom Action Research
Speaking skills is an important skill that the students should master when they learn a language. It is undeniable that many students have difficulty improving their speaking skills. After conducting a preliminary study to find out the students’ problems, the researcher found the students’ problems dealing with speaking. The researcher found five speaking issues; students’ linguistic aspects, psychological aspects, the teacher’s strategy and method in teaching speaking, the lack of media, and students’ speaking achievement. Based on those issues, the researcher remarkably put the main problem, which is students’ speaking achivement by providing relevant media. The researcher proposed Stick Puppets as an appropriate media. It is chosen because it is suitable with the strategy and the aspects that were being improved.
Based on the above problems, the research question formulated in this study is “How can the speaking skill of seventh-graders’ A of SMPN 1 Bantaran be improved through the use of stick puppets”. This research aims to produce an instructional method using sick puppets as an alternative media in improving students’ speaking skills in the seventh-graders’ A of SMPN 1 Bantaran.
This research was Classroom Action Research (CAR) adopted from Kemmis and Mc Taggart. The classroom action research design in this research was collaborative classroom action research. The participants of this research were the Seventh-graders’ A of SMPN 1 Bantaran in the academic year 2021/ 2022. This research was conducted in one cycle of 3 meetings and 1 post-test. The researcher used a speaking test as the primary data to collect students’ speaking scores and teacher’s fieldnote, teacher’s interview, students’ questionnaire, and classroom observation sheet as the secondary data from enriching the data collection from both teacher and students.
After implementing stick puppets media, this research found that the speaking skill of seventh-graders’ A of SMPN 1 Bantaran improved through stick puppets. The result showed that 22 students or 95,65% could pass the KKM with a mean score improved 90,86 compared to the preliminary speaking test was 16,08. The criteria of success in this research were if the students reached the minimum (70) or were equal to or higher than 60% of the total students in this research. After the research, the data presented that stick puppets media can improve students speaking skills in vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and content. Additionally, stick puppets can increase students’ activeness in the classroom. On the other hand, the students were interested, motivated, and confident using stick puppts and helped students to describe people’s physical appearance.

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