Mahbuub.2016. Improving students’ speaking skill through Short story and Puppet at the Second Grade Student of SMP Negeri 2 Batang Alai Selatan Central Hulu Sungai Regency. Thesis. English Department Education Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training. Advisor: (I) Drs. Sa’adillah, M.Pd, (II) Nani Hizriani, M.A.
Keywords: Speaking, Skill, Puppet
Speaking is one of the language skills to be interested by students in order to be able to communicate English well. So, teachers may use an interesting media to present their teaching materials that also help them in creating fun class and fun situation. Speaking is very important for English learners, it is essential for English teachers to encourage the students to speak.
The Problem formulation of this reseacrh are : how effective is the puppet to improve students speaking skill at the second grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Batang Alai Selatan, how is the improvement of students speaking skill after teach using puppet at the second grade students.
The Subject of this research is 40 students of the second grade of SMP Negeri 2 Batang Alai Selatan in the first academic year 2015/2016. The object of the research is the ability for improving students’ speaking skill the second grade students in speaking through Short story and Puppet.
To collect the data, the writer uses some instrument such as questionnaire, test, documentary. Data processing in this research is divided into five phases: editing, coding, classifying, interpreting, and tabulating. Then, all the data are analyzed descriptively and quantitatively.
This research concluded that the using of Puppet in teaching speaking is effective and there is a significant. t table (5% = 2,02) < ttest (4,50) > t table (1% = 2,71). Value shows that t test is higher than t table 5% and 1% Ho (Zero Hypothesis) is rejected and Ha (Alternative Hypothesis) is accepted. The result of this research states that the ability of the second grade students of experiment class in improving speaking skill using puppet is in effective category because the average of post test result is 74,5.