Saputri, Cerly (2024) Improving the Students' Skill in Writing Narrative Text Through Hand Puppets of the Eighth Grade of SMPN 2 Metro Lampung in the Academic Year of 2023/2024. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

Writing is the most difficult language skill. It is also considered as the most complicated language skill to be learned, compared to other language skills. The objective of the study is to find out whether the use of hand puppet media will be able to improve the students writing skill in narrative text at the SMP N 2 Metro,Lampung. Writing is the expression of language in the form of letters, symbols, and words. Through writing someone can share tehir knowledge, conveying idea, feeling and intention to the other people. In teaching learning process, the teacher should be able to create or choose the suitable and good media. Hand Puppet media is one of the media that can be applied in the teaching English, especially teaching writing skill in narrative text.

The research uses classroom action research which was done in two cycle. Each cycle consist of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The subject of this research is VIII E class. In collecting the data the researcher used test ( pre test, post test 1 and post test 2 ), observation and documentation.

The result of this research showed that hand puppet media as a media can improve students‟ writing skill in narrative text at the eighth grade of SMPN 2 Metro, Lampung. It can be proven by the students‟ average score from pre-test to post test. The average score in pre-test was 58, post-test 1 was 70,1 and post test 2 was 76,88. It mean that the using of hand puppet media as a media could improve the student's writing skill in narrative text.

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