The effect of hand puppet as media to build up the students’ ability in speaking at mts swasta Nurul Amal Kuala

This research aimed to find out whether there is significant effect in the students, speaking achievement at MTs Swasta Nurul Amal Sukatani in 2015/2016 academic year. The population of the research was the eighth grade students of MTs Swasta Nurul Amal Sukatani in 2015/2016 academic year that amount 61 students consist of two classes. The research methodology was an experimental research, which conducted the experimental class (VIII A) and control class (VIII B) as sample. The data collection method of this research are test and document. In this research the writer taught VIII A by using hand puppet as media, while VIII B was thought by using lecturing strategy. The researcher gave speaking test to gather the data. There were two test: pre-test and post-test. The formula that was used to analyze the data was t-test. It was used to determine whether there is significant effect on the students‟ ability in speaking at MTs Swasta Nurul Amal Sukatani in 2015/2016 academic year. After the data had been collected, it was found that the pre-test average of experiment class was 55.48 and control class 50.90. post-test average of the experiment class was 69.71 and control class was 53.63. it was found that t-test was (7.87), whereas the table was (2.002) for α = 0.05. the t-test score was higher than the t-table (7.87>2.002). It means that Ha was accepted while H0 was rejected. It means that there is significant effect of hand puppet as media in to build up the students‟ ability in speaking achievement