Research Questions LITERATURE REVIEW

34 guidance to make the lesson plan. The learning material was collected from some sources, such as English course book and internet. Moreover, there were two parts in designing the talking puppet. They were designing the media and designing the work ways of the media. The first step included the way on how to manifest the idea into the real form. Then the second step was the way how to make the learning media work properly, such as how to make the sound come automatically and how to combine the puppet with the audio output, and so on. 3. Development The media design in the previous step was used as the guidance in producing the real media in this step. Some items are used to create talking puppets, such as hand puppet, mini speaker, glue, cutters, flash disk, and so on. In addition, the sound in the talking puppet was created manually and edited to change the voice. 4. Implementation After the media were reviewed by the English teacher and the experts, the implementation of the learning media was conducted by the researcher. This step was also conducted in order to get the evaluation of the media, especially from young learners. 35 5. Evaluation In this step, the evaluation of the media was based on the data from the questionnaires distributed to the students. After implementing the talking puppet in the teaching and learning process, the researcher asked the students’ opinion about the media through questionnaires.

C. Design Media Development Trials

1. Design of Trials

Based on needs analysis, the researcher could decide the materials and also the learning media. In designing the learning media, the researcher should rely on the data obtained from questionnaires and interview. Then, all of the data were analyzed and used as the guidance for designing the learning media. The media was also developed based on the theme based teaching in the school.

2. Subject and Setting of the Research

There was one group of participants in this research. The research took place at SD N Tegalrejo 2. It was located in Tegalrejo, Pakuncen, Wirobrajan , Yogyakarta. It has actually 12 classrooms that are divided into six grades. It has about 358 students. The school is well facilitated. The school has one computer laboratory and one library. The library is supported by one teacher who is assigned for using library in that school. The data were taken from the fifth grade students at SD N Tegalrejo 2 .