Analysis of Post test

Although the percentage was increased, the percentage of the score had not been satisfied, and it needed to be improved. Based on the problem above, the writer concluded that the use of puppets and its relevancy in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation were still low. It made the writer conclude to conduct the second cycle. The purpose of it was improving the students’ ability in speaking. In the cycle 2, the result of observation guide that was filled by the teacher was better than before. The percentage of the score was 82 from the maximal percentage that was 100. It meant that the result increased. This percentage had the meaning that the observers had found a high positive impact of using puppets in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversations. In detail, the English Speaking class was interesting, fun, and not boring. It was proved by the students’ behavior when they joined in teaching learning process. Next, the students fully showed their activeness in the teaching learning process. Then, the students’ response and comprehension to the material showed the better even best result. It was proved by some students looked well even some of them looked wonderful when they do a conversation with the puppets that was acted out by the teacher. Their turn taking and response when the teacher immediately asked them a question looked so good. Moreover, the students’ interest, motivation, and confidence were in the very high level of scoring that meant the students’ desire in learning the two kinds of conversation using puppets showed a good increase and improvement; besides, the students were so active and creative in joining the teaching learning process that showed by the level of it was in the very high level. After doing cycle 2, the writer did post test. In the post test, the observer did the last observation guide. Then, the result of observation guide of the post test was 86. It meant that the percentage of the score was increased. It increased 2. In the post test, the score of some aspects were increased; they were aspect 5, 6 and 7. Aspect 5 was about students’ creativity, aspect 6 was about students’ confidence and Aspect 7 was about students’ interest. In detail, It would be explained in the appendix. Based on the result above, the writer concluded that the use of puppets and its relevancy in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation were high. Then, we could say that the use of puppets gave a good contribution in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation.

4.6 Analysis of questionnaire

The last activity of the classroom action research was answering the questionnaire. It was conducted at the same time when the writer gave a post test. This questionnaire had 5 questions; they are about students’ interest, the advantage, students’ motivation, the relevancy, and sustainability. Each question had 3 options; they are a, b, and c; besides, each option had certain point. Then the students were asked to answer those five questions depend on their own thinking. There are certain techniques to analyze this questionnaire items. They would be discussed in the next sections.

4.6.1. Grading the Items of the Questionnaire

The questionnaire consisted of five questions; each of them had these options namely: a, b, and c. each option had a score that showed the quality of each item. The score ranges were from 1 to 3 as shown in the table below: Table 11. Grading the items of questionnaire Options Score Meaning A 1 Low B 2 Medium C 3 High Arikunto, 1998: 215 in Ratnasari, 2005 The explanation of the point above was a. If the students choose a, the score is 1, it means that it is low, b. If the students choose b, the score is 2, it means that it is medium, c. If the students choose c, the score is 3, it means that it is high.

4.6.2 Determining the Grade Score

The writer analyzed the result of the questionnaire after the students answered the questionnaire. The result of the data analysis of each question could be classified into a range of mean below: Table 12. Determining the score grade Range of Mean Students’ Interest The Advantage Students’ motivation The relevancy Sustainability 0.00- Low Do not Low Not Not