Instrument of the Study

29 and post-test in order to know the students mastery in that material. Then, I compared the students result in the pre-test and post-test.

3.3 Instrument of the Study

The instruments of the study in this research are a puppet, tests, field notes and a questionnaire.

3.3.1 A Puppets

In this study, I was interested in using puppet. The puppet had relation with the object or the theme in the English material to be introduced to the students. I showed the puppet in front of the class. In this research the writer used one type puppet that is Hand Puppets. The writer used a people puppet.

3.3.2 Tests

The writer used test in her study as the instrument for collecting data. The tests were pre-test and post-test. The purpose of giving a pre-test was to know the students’ ability in mastering English vocabularies before conducting this study. There were 40 multiple-choice questions to be tested. There were fruits, animals, parts of body, things in the classroom, and road signs. If the students results of the pre-test were lower than the criterion that have been confirmed by Department of Education and culture, the researcher began the cycles of the action research by using the same forty words. The researcher had to change the words if 30 the results of the pre-test were the same or higher than the criterion. She started to treat the students by using a puppet as vocabulary instruments.

3.3.3 Field Notes

Field notes were used to observe the situation of the class during each cycle of this study. There are three components that the writer observed. They are: 1 the situation of the class If there were a lot of students enthusiastically raising their hands when she asked them, she might conclude that they gave much attention to her explanation during the study. 2 the participation of the students If the students did what writer ordered, she would conclude that they were motivated to be active. 3 the pronunciation of the students If the students could pronounce the vocabulary given in the last each cycle better than in the beginning of each cycle, she would conclude that they were in progress. However, she did not take the score of it

3.3.4 Questionnaire

The last technique in collecting data is the use of questionnaire. The purpose was to gather information from the students, after being taught by using a puppet. It was used to support the primary data from the teaching learning activities and the test. 31

3.4 The Steps in Action Research