Buku PGSD
USING ENGLISH SONGS TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS? ABILITY IN PRONOUNCING ENGLISH WORDS AT THE SEVENTH GRADE OF SMP N 5 TUBAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2014 / 2015
ABSTRACT
Tanty, Kyky Tri, 2015 : Using English Songs To Improve Students? Ability In Pronuncing English Words Of The Seventh Grade Students Of Smp N 5 Tuban In The Academic Year 2014 / 2015
Advisor : Adria Rosi S., A.Par, M.Pd
Key word : Song, Improve, pronunciation, student, ability
Song is an interesting media that offers the high imagination. The language song usually easy to be understood. Listening the song can improve pronunciation ability of the students. It gives motivation and makes the relation between the teacher and students closer. The relation will make the students have bravery to ask the teacher about everything including new vocabularies in song that they learn.
The researcher wants to know the influence of this method in students? pronunciation ability and to know the students? responses of Song which is implemented to the seventh grade students in VII C class of SMP N 5 Tuban as the subject of the study. There are 33 students as the subject of the study in this class.
The research design used was collaborative classroom action research (CAR) in which the researcher and her collaborator worked together on designing the lesson plans, applying the actions, observing the effect of action, and reflecting the results of the actions. In conducting the research, the researcher was the practitioner while the collaborator became the observer. The research was carried out in two cycles following the action research procedure, i.e., planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The first and the second cycles were carried out in two meetings. It was combination between quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative manner to obtain the data from the students? score of reading proficiency. While, qualitative manner was used to obtain from the observation of the students? activity and the teacher?s activity. The researcher carried out the study by using some instruments such as pronunciation test, observation checklist and questionnaire.
After collecting data the researcher conclude that using song in teaching and learning activity made the students enthusiastic and can improve their pronunciation ability by progress of the students? score, 25% in cycle 1, and 12% in cycle 2 shows that listening English songs is effective to improve the students? pronunciation ability.
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