Reasons for choosing the Topic

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. 8

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter discusses about the literature review related to the topic of this study namely General concept of transactional and interpersonal conversation, teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation, definition of media, definition of media, definition of puppets, characteristic of junior high school students, teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation using puppets for the eight graders of junior high school.

2.1 General concepts of Transactional and Interpersonal conversation

Transactional and interpersonal conversations are two of kinds of genre in speaking. We know that conversation is at least two persons that do communication activity. Besides, conversation can be defined as a dialogue between two persons or more in an informal situation. Then, it is important for the dialogue to contain patterns that the children can transfer to other situations, and instead of getting the children to memorize dialogue, and to train them how to make choices about what to say to express thoughts and feelings Paul 2007: 77. Transactional language, carried out for the purpose of conveying or exchanging specific information, is an extended form of responsive language Brown 2001: 273. Meanwhile, Bailey 2005:97 states that ‘transactional conversation involves communicating to get something done, such as the exchange of goods and or services.’ Thus, transactional conversation means a