Media in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation

it is expected to make the teaching learning activity is highly motivating, and students can participate in it. In teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation, teacher needs a good way to improve student’s motivation in teaching learning process especially in teaching the junior high school students. Using puppets in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation, we as a teacher should know the technique to use them. If we do not understand how to operate them, the messages that delivered by us will not be accepted well by the students especially the junior high school students. According to Rehymer 1997: 98 in Nilamwati 2009, there are five basic techniques of using puppet; they are 1 Lip Synchronization which is synchronizing the opening of the puppets mouth with the spoken words; besides, the puppeteer should avoid moving the mouth at random during a sentence; 2 Mouth action which is practicing to open the puppet’s mouth by moving his fingers upward, and then a slight forward thrusting of the hand may help when first starting out; 3 Eye contact where the puppeteer should look the audience regularly, and this will ensure more effective eye contact; 4 Posture which is making the puppet appear naturally, good posture cannot be ignored; 5 Entrances and exits which there are many ways to enter and exit puppet, one of the ways is to make the puppet appears as if it is walking up or down a ramp. The teacher should know the procedures of using puppet in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation. First, the teacher has to make a dialogue based on the topic. Then prepare the appropriate puppets. For example, if the dialogue about traffic violence, the teacher can use a police and a motor rider puppets. After that, teacher prepares a stage for puppet show. Next, the teacher should give brief explanation about the topic of conversation to the students. Then, teacher demonstrates the dialogue through the puppet by doing monologue in different voice for each role. In this way, the five techniques above are very helpful for teacher in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversation. In teaching conversation, lip synchronization and mouth action are needed in directing puppets because we can see the puppets as if they really speak. Then eye contact, Posture, Entrances and exits are important too in using puppets. The teacher as the puppeteer should be concerned with those techniques so that the students can really see the interaction through the puppets.