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enjoy the teaching learning process and can enrich their vocabulary and improve their listening skill in fun way.
B. Identification of The Problem
As being mentioned before, learning media are very important when teaching young learner. In fact most of the English teachers in Indonesia did not
use interesting and appropriate media such as song, stories or games to make the listening activities more enjoyable. If the teachers did not use interesting learning
media, young learners could get bored easily when they kept doing the same activities again and over again.
In addition, there were not any interesting media which were used to teach listening. As a result, most of teaching and learning activities focused on the
written assignments. The elementary school teachers rarely taught the listening skill to the students. They drill the students with a reading and writing task that
sometimes makes the student bored to learn English. Furthermore, most of schools in Indonesia do not have any media to teach
listening. Then, workbook becomes the only one resource which used in teaching and learning process. Moreover, teacher teaches listening material orally because
there are no other media such as a speaker, tape recorder or cassette. As the consequences the students showed low motivation in listening activities.
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C. Limitation of The Problem
Based on the problem identification above, this study focuses on developing English talking puppet media to teach listening skill. Theme based
teaching is used in this media. This teaching aids is suitable to teach young learner especially fifth grade students. In addition, the text type for teaching and learning
activities of listening skills in this research is narrative text. ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ is suitable for this research study because it is one of popular narrative
authentic material.
D. Formulation of The Problem
Based on the limitation of the problem above there is only one major problem. The problem of this study can be formulated as follows:
How to make appropriate English teaching aids based on the curriculum for fifth grade students.
E. Objectives of The Research
In relation to the formulation of the problem above, the objective of this research is to develop talking puppets as English teaching aids that can be applied
for conducting the lesson in SDN Tegalrejo 2 Yogyakarta.
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F. Specification of the product
• A talking puppet is a kind of learning media in the form of hand puppet. • This learning media consist of hand puppets, mini speaker, flash disk and
teacher manual. • This media can produce sound from mini speaker. The source of the sound
is from flash disk. • Talking puppet has a unique form so this media can attract student
attention especially young learners. • The teacher manual is in the form of small book. This teacher manual
contains both a written guide and the associated images. This teacher manual consist of:
1. A cover page 2. Course grid and lesson plan
3. A contents page 4. Script of ‘Very hungry caterpillar’ story.
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G. Significance of the Research
This research is expected to give contributions to English education department, teacher and other researchers who are interested in
listening or media development. The expected contributions are: 1. English Education Department
This study is expected to be used as a reference related to a research and development study. Moreover, the media that have been developed by the
researcher can be stored in the media room and can be used as a media for teaching young learners.
2. For Elementary English Teachers This study is expected to provide better technique for teaching listening skill
to children. 3. Children Media Developers
This study is expected to inspire another media developer for developing similar media.
4. English course book writers This study is expected to inspire and give a reference for children book writers.
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