the teachers in teaching transactional and interpersonal conversations. Actually, we need a media that can help students to see the interaction in the transactional
and interpersonal conversations. Then, this media can make students understand what response to give if someone ask or state something to them, and make
students notice when their turn to ask or state and when their turn to answer or give response. Besides, the media should be interesting, imaginative and playful
to the students. Based on the explanation above, the writer thinks that the media which
can be used to show the interaction in the transactional and interpersonal conversations is puppets because puppets are representative, playful, helpful, fun,
and imaginative enough to teach the two kinds of conversations. There has been a study that uses puppets as media in teaching vocabulary
at elementary school students, and the result shows that the use of puppets in teaching vocabulary was effective. Then, the writer thinks that vocabulary is a
part of conversation so that the use of puppets in teaching conversation is expected to give positive result too.
1.2 Reasons for choosing the Topic
Some reasons why the writer chooses the topic “The use of Puppets as A Media in Teaching Transactional and Interpersonal Conversation for the seventh grade of
junior high school” are: 1 It is difficult for most English teachers to make their speaking class being
attractive, interesting, fun, and not boring because almost of them use the
classical way of teaching when they teach transactional and interpersonal conversation
2 One of difficulties in teaching speaking is making the students active in teaching learning process because many teachers only give them material
and explain it without get the students to perform their speaking ability in front of class
3 The students in the eight grades of junior high school like to imagine something than thinking something hard, and puppets are expected to help
students to imagine and enjoy what they are learning in the speaking class especially in learning transactional and interpersonal conversations
because the students can make their own puppets depend on their like and imagination
1.3 Research Question
The problem investigated is stated as follows: 1 How well do puppets give contribution in teaching transactional and
interpersonal conversations for the eight grades of junior high school? 2 How is the students’ achievement in transactional and interpersonal
conversation especially about asking, giving, and refusing service; asking, giving, and rejecting goods; asking, giving, and declining
information, asking, giving, and denying opinion by using puppets?
1.4 Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study is stated as follows: 1 To find out how well puppets give contribution in teaching transactional
and interpersonal conversation for the eight graders of junior high school 2 To describe how the students’ achievement in transactional and
interpersonal conversation especially about asking, giving, and refusing service; asking, giving, and rejecting goods; asking, giving, and declining
information, asking, giving, and denying opinion by using puppets
1.5 Definition of key words
