Abstract
This study aimed at investigating whether the implementation of hand puppet in role play gave a significant effect to the students’ speaking competency. Hand puppets are dolls that are used as media or tools used in learning activities. Types of puppets that are usually used are hand puppets made of pieces of cloth. Methods: The research design used a pre-experimental design with a one group pre-posttest design. The populations used in this study were children in B group class in Santo Rafael Singaraja. The speaking measurement used an observation sheet in which it guided by a task. The sample size used is 30 respondents who have been selected using a total sampling technique. This study used parametric statistics using Paired Sample T-test with a significant level of α = 0.05. Results: The results showed that the pre-test mean was 56.00, and the post-test mean was 68.33. The results of parametric statistical tests using the Paired Sample T-test showed pre and post results (0.000) <α (0.05), which means that H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted. Conclusion: This shows that there is an influence of the role-play method by hand puppet media in speaking class of Santo Rafael Kindergarten Students.
Highlights
The aim of teaching English is to develop the students’ oral or literal communicative ability
Oral or literal communicative ability means the students have a concern with the ability to understand and to express information, opinions, ideas or fells; they can develop science and technology
The respondents’ characteristic from 30 respondents in this research showed: The frequency distribution of respondents based on gender gained boys 17 (56.7%) students and girls 13 (43.7%) students. It showed the higher age is 5 years old, and the lowest was 4 years old The result of this study showed that before the role-play method by hand puppet given, the frequency speaking ability of respondents in Santo Rafael kindergarten was 16 (53,3%) students in categorized caution and 1 (3,3%) student in categorized delayed
Summary
The aim of teaching English is to develop the students’ oral or literal communicative ability. Communicative ability means the students understand how to produce oral or literal texts. In this case, the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) are used to perceive or to produce the discourse in social life or in literacy grade. Learning English for kindergarten students is not easy to be faced It is because the students of this grade still have a lower understanding of English. They are less familiar with English, so that teacher in this grade should have attractive and creative when teaching them in the classroom. When the student is happy to learn English, they will easy to understand the lesson given
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