THE EFFECT OF ENGLISH SONG LYRICS IN TEACHING VOCABULARY TOWARDS STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT THE THIRD GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 3 GUNUNGSARI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018

Abstract

This research is an Experimental research. This research is aimed at finding out the effect of English song lyrics in teaching vocabulary towards students’ listening comprehension at the third grade students of SMPN 3 Gunungsari in academic year 2017/2018.The total of population in this study at third grade students of SMPN 3 Gunungsari in academic year 2017/2018were  46  students which divided into two classes, these are IX A 23 students and IX B 23 students. Where all of the population was taken into sample then the researcher found that IX A 22 students as the experimental group and IX B  22 students  as the control group. The data of  this research were collected through given pre-test and post-test for both of the sample. The researcher  gave  the  test multiple choice for the students in English song lyrics as before and after giving the treatment. The multiple choice consist of 25 items. The score for the students’ correct answer the reseacher gave1 and the incorrect gave 0.  To determine the student score, so the number of true scores divided by the total of questions and multiplied by 100. Technique of data analysis of this research was descriptive quantitative.From the computation of the students’ mean and deviation scores of the two groups the researcher found that the mean score of experiment group was 37,04 and the mean score of control group was 32,35 meanwhile, the standard deviation score of experiment group was and the standard deviation score of control group was , and the squared standard deviation score of experiment group was  and the squared of standard deviation score of control group was . In this study, the researcher used t-test  to test the significance of the two variables being investigated, the result of t-test was compared to the t-table.After calculating the data by using t-test formula, the result was 0,23 as t_obtained.This has been proved by analyzing data from the distinction between both mean and deviation scores of experiment and control group and also by analyzing the t-test formula was obtained to t-table 1,680 at the level of significance 0,05 and degree of freedom 23+23-2=44. After comparing the scores, that was proved that teaching vocabulary through English Song Lyrics was not effective at SMPN 3 Gunungsari in academic year 2017/2018.