Using Hand-Doll Puppet in Encouraging Learning Participation in English Classroom

Teaching English to young learners is a challenge for an English teacher, they have to create a fun method to get young learners‟ attention and encourage their learning participation in English classroom. Furthermore, there are lots of media that can be used in the teaching-learning process, one of them is hand-doll puppet. The research aims of this study are to explore how does the hand-doll puppet encourages learning participation in English classroom and to know how young learners perceive the use of hand-doll puppet in encouraging their learning participation in English classroom. The participants were six young learners in
aged 6th to 12th years old and students of Taman Pendidikan Al-Qur‟an Mesjid Taqwa. This research used qualitative research with observation and non- structural interview to obtain the data. The results of this study showed that all participants were enjoyed learning English by using hand-doll puppet and active in all activities includes performing in front of class. The researcher also found that the hand-doll puppet gave the external motivations to encourage students‟ participation and support them to be active in the classroom. In addition, using hand-doll puppet as a media in learning is influenced students‟ learning participation. The puppet attracted students‟ attention, supported the students to be brave in performing or practicing the lesson in front of class and helped the students to more confidence in answering teacher‟s questions. The puppet also helped the teacher in teaching process, the teacher used the hand-doll puppet as a speaker and question, the puppet would ask the students by teacher‟s voice.