Background of the Study

1.4 Purpose of the Study

The purpose of this study is stated as follows: 1 To find out how well puppets give contribution in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation for the eight graders of junior high school 2 To describe how the students’ achievement in transactional and interpersonal conversation especially about asking, giving, and refusing service; asking, giving, and rejecting goods; asking, giving, and declining information, asking, giving, and denying opinion by using puppets

1.5 Definition of key words

1.5.1 Interpersonal conversation Interpersonal conversation is how to socialize by using spoken language to interact with surrounding. 1.5.2 Transactional conversation Transactional conversation is how to communicate to have something done 1.5.3 Puppets Puppets are representative, playful, helpful, fun, and imaginative media to teach the transactional and interpersonal conversation

1.6 Significance of the Study

After doing the research, the result of the study is expected can give the following advantages: 1 The teachers can use more strategies in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation 2 The students can learn transactional and interpersonal conversation using another way that is using puppets as media, and 3 The result of the study could provide the readers with information about the effectiveness of puppets in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation 1.7 Outline of the research Chapter I is introduction that includes: background of the study, reason for choosing the topic, research questions, purposes of the study, significance of the study, and outline of the study. Chapter II presents review of related literature, which discusses general concept of speaking, general concept of transactional and interpersonal conversation, teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation, definition of media, definition of puppets, types of puppets, characteristics of the junior high school students, puppets as a media in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation for the eight graders of junior high school. Chapter III presents the methodology of the study. It discusses how the writer gets the data. Chapter IV discusses the analysis of the research Chapter V discusses the conclusions and suggestions of the research 1.8 Limitation of the Study 1.8.1 Limitation of the subject study Subject of the study in this research is the eight graders of SMP N 1 Slawi which are 200 students divided into 8 classes; they are 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8,8. Because the subject of the study is too large, the writer has to limit them into specific one as the sample. Then, the writer uses random sampling technique to choose the sample. After doing random sampling, the writer gets 8.4 as the sample. 1.8.2 Limitation of the Puppets This study uses puppets as media in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversations. Actually, there are so many kinds of puppets; they are finger puppet, bag puppet, shock puppet, hand puppet, etc. Because there are so many puppets, the writer has to limit them. Then the writer chooses hand puppet because it can carry on a conversation with the students Norton 1980: 54. 1.8.3 Limitation of the Material This study is about using puppets in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversations. Transactional and interpersonal as the material in this study, has many kinds, but the writer chooses some of them; they are asking, giving, and refusing service, asking, giving, and rejecting goods, asking, giving, and declining information, asking, giving, and denying opinion.