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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 General Background of the Study
In Indonesia, learning English as a second language is not easy because it is a foreign language. Firstly, when we want to learn English, there will be a
question in our head,
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Cameron:40. To construct the understanding in a foreign language, learners will use their existing language resources, built up from previous experience of
language use.
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learning process. Some kinds of media that might help them to deliver the materials are song, picture, rhyme, models, puppets, etc.
Puppet as one of teaching media shows characters of something and their details. Moreover, puppet is fun. There are so many kinds of puppet that is
used by the teacher such as hand puppet, shadow puppet, finger puppet, etc. It gives benefit to the teacher because heshe has an example
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activities. Then, I hope by using the media of hand puppet in this study, it will help students to improve their brave, confidence and ability in speaking skill.
1.3 Statement of the Problems
Based on the general background of the study above, the problem can be stated as follow:
Is there any significant difference in the students
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1.6 Limitation of the Study
To limit the scope of the study, this research only focuses on the use of hand puppet as a media in teaching speaking, especially in performing
adjacency pairs. Then, the subject of the research is the seventh graders of junior high school students. In this study, I choose the seventh graders of SMP
11 Semarang on the academic year of 20112012 for the subject research. In this study, I focus on how the students present the adjacency pairs
dialogue. Then, because of so many kinds of adjacency pairs, I just focus in some kinds of adjacency pairs such as Greeting-greeting, Question-answers,
Request-acceptance denial, Invitation-acceptance and Offers-acceptance.
1.7 Outline of the Report
This study consists of 5 chapters. Chapter 1 covers the general background of the study, reasons for choosing the topic, problem of the study,
objective of the study, and the significance of the study. Chapter 2 discusses review of the related literature. It comprises
teaching speaking to children by using hand puppet as the teaching media. Chapter 3 deals with method of investigation that consists of method of
the study, subject of the study, sample, variable, method of collecting data, instruments of the study, procedure of data collecting, scoring technique and the
last is validity and reliability of the test. Chapter 4 discusses data analysis and data interpretation
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Chapter 5 is the final chapter that contains conclusions and suggestions on the basis of the research finding.
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CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter describes some theories and opinions discussed in the study based on the review of related literature.
2.1 General Concept of Media
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