Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching)
Vol 2, No 2 (2017): MELT December 2017

THE IMPACT OF APPLYING ENGLISH SONG IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Murniaty Murniaty (Universitas Potensi Utama)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Jan 2019

Abstract

The study investigated about the sluggishness of students in English language lesson that caused them have low score. Due to that reason, it had researched teaching and learning process of listening comprehension. The students of one public junior high school, class VII were trained to listen songs as an experiment for several times in one semester, such as : folk songs, pop songs, etc. The research findings by applying Wilcoxon signed-rank test showed that Z > 1,96, that is Z > 5,147; which means there is significant difference after giving the treatment, or the score raised up about 5 – 10%. This indicates that students more understand  the substance of the song also other English language materials, and more attractive and courage  to learn English language.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

MELT

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) is a scientific journal which published by English Education Study Program, University of Potensi Utama Medan. MELT Journal published twice a year in June and December. This journal is the forum for academics and researchers to share the ...