Matching the Mean to a Criterion

maximal percentage that was 100. It meant 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. 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. 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. The two last were the effectiveness and relevancy of puppets as media in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation were in the high level of score. The other proof which showed that using puppets in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation gave a good contribution in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation was the result of questionnaire that was filled by the students as the subject of the study. This questionnaire had 5 questions based on certain categories; they were about students’ interest, the advantage of using puppets in teaching leaning process, students’ motivation, the relevancy of using puppets in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation, and its sustainability. Then, the result of all of the categories was in the high level. It showed that the students thought that the use of puppets in teaching learning process help them very much. Based on the result above, the writer concluded that the improvement of the students’ speaking skill especially in transactional and interpersonal conversations not only proved by the result of the test, but also it proved by the result of the observation guide that was done by the observers who were the real teacher of SMP Negeri 1 Slawi, and the result of the questionnaire. In short, the writer concluded that puppets really gave a good contribution to improve students’ speaking skill; besides, it was so effective to be used in teaching the two kinds of conversation.