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THE STUDY OF LEXICAL MEANING ON COLDPLAY?S SONGS IN THE ALBUM A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS? READING ABILITY AT LEARNING CENTER COURSE

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Fathony, Ichwan, 2017 : The study of lexical meaning on Coldplay?s songs in the album A head full of dreams to improve students? reading ability at Learning Center Course.
The Advisor : P1:Dyah Kurniawati, M.Pd
P2: Fenty Andriani, M.Pd
Key word : Lexical meaning, reading, listening music, improvement.

The objective of this study is to describe how songs can influence students? achievement in pronouncing English words. In constructing this study, the writer collected data from the classroom action research, which was carried out through two cycles. The activities were begun from selecting focus, collecting data, analyzing and interpreting the data, taking action and find out the students? reflection. The subjects of this study were 18 students at Learning Center Course. In doing this study, the writer used an oral test method. The action was done through teaching learning process. All of the teaching learning process was presented by the help of songs from Coldplay?s songs in the album A head full of Dreams those were Army of the one and Hymn for the weekend. Those songs were implemented in teaching reading to improve students reading ability.
The data analysis of this study was qualitative. Based on the data analysis from each activity, it can be seen that there is a significant difference of the students? achievement in the pretest and posttest. The students? achievement in the posttest is higher than that of the pretest.
After the treatment by using songs in each cycle, the students? achievement in reading English words improved. This improvement is caused by the students? interest of the songs given and the relevance between vocabularies that are presented in the songs used in this action research and the vocabulary that the students have already got, but they still get difficulties in reading some of words.
Based on this study, it is found that the use of songs in teaching English is effective to improve the students? students reading ability and very beneficial for the students in order to facilitate them in learning English. Based on this finding, it is suggested that songs in teaching English can be recommended for the English teachers. To get a wider generalization, research of similar kind should be done with different subjects.

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00025-2017-BING

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Tuban : Unirow., 2017

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