THE INFLUENCE OF USING FINGER PUPPETTOWARDS STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE SEVENTH GRADE OF SMPN 1 KATIBUNG SOUTH LAMPUNG IN 2017/2018 ACADEMIC YEAR

ABSTRACT THE INFLUENCE OF USING FINGER PUPPETTOWARDS STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE SEVENTH GRADE OF SMPN 1 KATIBUNG SOUTH LAMPUNG IN 2017/2018 ACADEMIC YEAR By: Kiki Lafenia Irawan Speaking is one of important skills in English. Based on the preliminary research, most of students’ speaking score got under criteria 151 (70.9%) and only 46 (29.1%) students’ got score above criteria. So, it can be said that students’ speaking score is low. The objective of this research is to know whether there is a significant influence of using Finger Puppet toward students’ speaking skill at the first semester of the seventh grade of SMPN 1 Katibung south lampung in 2017/2018 academic year. One of the goals of the learning English as a foreign language is to enable the students’ to communicate in spoken language. However, most of students still find difficulties in speaking, especially in expressing their idea. One of the media that can be used to teach speaking is Finger Puppet. The research methodology of this research was quasi experimental research with pre-test and post-test design by using experimental class and control class. In the experimental class, the writer used Finger Puppet, whereas in control class the writer used dialogue memorization. The samples of this research were 2 classes consisting of 64 students’. In taking the sample, the writer used cluster random sampling technique. In collecting the data, the writer used test. The instrument of this research was an oral test. The writer used the pre-test and post-test. After doing testing the hypothesis, the results was that there is a significant influence of using Finger Puppettowards students’ speaking skill at the firstsemester of the seventhgrade of SMPN 1 Katibungin 2017/2018academic year.From the data analysis computed by using SPSS, it was obtained that Sig = 0.00 an