NAMA : Julian Danang Prabowo

NIM : A320160011
KELAS :A

A Model Lesson for Using Songs To Improve Students Listening

Skills

BACKGROUND STUDY

Listening is one component of a skill performed by someone who creates good

interpersonal skills. An effective communication can be done by someone if they

have good listening skills as well. And the ability to listen to things to do if needed

Like a communication. In the communication process there are components of

the sender, channel, message, recipient, the effect of a unified component of the

communication process takes place. One component of the communication process

is receiving messages. How to receive messages well is one way of listening well.

Listening is not just a general use of the hearing instrument (ear), but has a broader

meaning by using other messaging tools. the differentiation of terms listening with

keywords for words such as the language in the english between listening with

hearing.

Listening is important skill and it is needed by the students‟ to improve their

English skills. According to Permendiknas (22/2006) state that the objective

of teaching Listening for junior high school is students‟ comprehend the meaning

11
in oral functional text and simple monologue in descriptive and procedure to

interact each other.

However, there are some common problems faced by students in learning

listening skill. One of them is they are not familiar with the spoken words and

foremost they miss catch the word. As Hassan (2014:32) said that the differences

of the sound system between the (LI) and the (L2), the inconsistency of some

sounds in English language, the mother tongue interference and the influence of

spelling on pronunciation. Besides, they are lack of understanding the whole

spoken text. In this case, listening becomes complex skill since they are lack

of ability to catch the word, grab the meaning of the word, and also

comprehend the spoken text. The students‟ also can not hear the pronunciation

clearly and it becomes problem for them.

Based on general problem that faced by students in learning listening, the

seventh grade students of SMP AL-ISLAM KARTASURA had difficulties in

learning listening. From the interview with the teacher, some students felt

difficult in understanding the vocabulary and pronounciation.The result, they did

not know the meaning. It happened because they could not hear the articulation of

the word clearly.

22
The previous research about A model Lesson for using songs to improve students

listening skills would be described by the writer :

1. The Function Of English Songs To Improve Listening To College ENGLISH

AS SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL) Students By Wang Xiao (Jack).(2013)
(https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/10597955.pdf).
2. The Use Songs In Teaching Students’ Listening Abilty By Apin Hidayat.
(2013)
(https://media.neliti.com/media/publications/192620-EN-the-use-of-songs-
in-teaching-students-li.pdf).
3. The Use Of Cildren Songs To Improve Students’ Listening Skills By
Shofiyah.(2015)
(https://www.google.co.id/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://eprints.
walisongo.ac.id/5102/1/113411141.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi0872DrN7ZAhVBP
Y8KHTTrBlYQFjACegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw2M_f2KmE1sDLYRf9pVzgxK
).
4. Improving Students’ Listening Skills By Using English Songs (By Dadang
Solihat and Prita Lusiana Utami).(2014)
(http://www.academia.edu/29741696/IMPROVING_STUDENTS_LISTENIN
G_SKILL_BY_USING_ENGLISH_SONGS).
5. The role of music and songs in teaching English vocabulary to students
(2016)(http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.psjd-
c18d141f-2e69-4b69-9edf-484a788c108a/c/WSN_43_1___2016__1-55.pdf )

33
 Problem Statement

Based on the writer consideration, the writer will establish some questions

for completing the research data there are :

1) How is the implementation of children songs in teaching listening skills ?

2) How is the improvement of students understanding on listening skills ?

Objective of the study

Based on the problem statement that the writer have been consider

and formulated above, objective studies are :

1) Most students have problems of vocabulary or unfamiliar words and

students can’t recognize the main points in listening tasks. So, children

song is a good media for listening skill. Because it is easy to understand

2) Using songs will make the students relax and fun. By using songs,

listening will be interesting and enjoyable

44
 Underlying Theory

According Syaiful Bahri Djamarah (2006) Media is any tool that can be

used as a message distributor to achieve goals. Based on the above

description can be concluded that the media is a tool or means used to

convey messages from the communicator to the audience. This learning

method, he said, is a way of learning and learning through the process of

recognition of songs that contain elements of language and linguistic

activities. Also contains an understanding of language elements and

linguistic activities, as well as application in communicating. The

introduction of language elements and linguistic activities through songs is

that students receive the subject matter contained in the song from the

teacher as an early stage of the learning and learning process. Understanding

is intended, embed the concept of language elements and linguistic activities

that have been received through the process of recognition of the song. While

the purpose of application is that students are able to apply the teaching

materials that have been received through the process of recognition of songs

in communicating.

55
 Previous Study

1. The Function Of English Songs To Improve Listening To

College ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL) Students By
Wang Xiao (Jack) (2013).
Some of the situations in china teaching using listening have been forgotten

long enough that many teaching teachers only use words that are difficult to

digest by students, just play the recording and check the student's answer.

This learning model is very ancient and makes students not interested in the

lesson. with other methods such as listening to beautiful melodies and

introducing English song songs in the classroom and creating enjoy in

classroom.

2. The Use Songs In Teaching Students’ Listening Abilty By Apin

Hidayat (2013).
This observing whether or not the use of songs significantly improves

students’ listening skill. new teaching and learning methods make it easier

for teachers and students to understand and appeal to students to achieve

learning goals. Media has an important role that can make students

understand the lessons that are delivered.Such as introducing songs in

English to improve Listening skills. Listening with songs that use English

as the lyrics will make learning English listening fun. By using songs as

media, we can learn four aspects of listening learning at once. This is one

66
 of the approaches to improve our skills in English listening, as well as to

motivate students in improving English listening skills.

3. The Use Of Children Songs To Improve Students’ Listening Skills

By Shofiyah (2015).
There are many ways we can communicate with English. Learning English

can actually be done anywhere with various media. In addition to lessons

received in the classroom, we can learn English in existing non-school

courses and educational institutions. Media used can be through television,

radio, mobile phone, print media such as newspapers and magazines, tourist

areas, internet, and of course One of the most interesting and easy media to

learn English is through music media.

4. Improving Students’ Listening Skills By Using English Songs (By

Dadang Solihat and Prita Lusiana Utami) (2014)
Learning media is a tool for teaching and learning process. Everything that

can be used for the mind, feelings and attention or skills of learners can help

the learning process. These limits are broad enough and deep, the source, the

environment, the human and the methods used for training / training. This

study investigates the ability to listen to students by using the English song.

This research purpose to know the effective of the use of English songs to

improve students' skills in listening to the song. to know the ability to

77
listening skillss,students must do pre-test,post-test and questionnaire. The

result of pre test and post test, this research used t-test formula by SPPSS

17.00.

5. The role of music and songs in teaching English vocabulary to

students
Basically everyone is experiencing the same thing when learning English,

ranging from memorizing vocabulary, grammar understanding and other

language structures although easily achieved during practice but most

quickly forgot, for example, understanding of the tenses are quickly.The

above problems are not the errors of the learner, but they may be errors in

learning methods that are unattractive, or too rigid, and therefore effective

learning activities are required. Listening with songs that use English as the

lyrics will make learning English fun. By using songs as media, we can learn

four aspects of learning to listen at once. This is one approach to improving

our listening skills in English, as well as to motivate students in improving

their English listening skills.

88
 Refference

Beal, M, L, et al. (2008). State of the Context: Listening in

Education. Routledge,

Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

Coromina, I, S. (2000). An Original Approach to the Teaching of

Songs in the

Classroom. Retrieved on December 1, 2011 from

http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum

Ytlberg and Scoot, Teaching English for Children, New York:

Longman, 1990

A Renandya Willy and Jack C Richard, Methodology in Language

Teaching, USA :Cambridge University Press New York,2002

Prayoga Moch. Ridwan, Teaching Listening Skill Using Audio Lingual

Method at First Grade Students of Asrama Bengkel Bahasa

Course, Bandung: STKIP) Siliwangi,2012

99
Carol Gray and Jenny Moffet, Handbook of Veterinary

Communication Skills, USA: Blackwell, 2010

John W Creswell, Education Research in English Language Teaching,

New York,Inc,2012

Suharsimi Arikunto, Prosedur Penelitian: Suatu Pendekatan Praktek,

Jakarta: PT. Rineka Cipta, 2002

www.songs_for_teaching.com/ib/literacyaccessed on February 12,

20.00 WIB.

10
 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

A. Type of research

In this study the writer used The researcher used classroom action
research (CAR). Classroom Action Research is a kind of research that is
conducted in the classroom by a teacher. CAR is a kind of research that has
reemerged as a popular way of involving practitioners, teachers and
supervisors. From the explanation above, the researcher can conclude that
classroom action research is a classroom action in a research, which can be
done by teacher, researcher, and teacher in university, etc with involves a
group of students to improve teaching and learning process or to enhance
the understanding of the students to the lesson. In this research, the
researcher use group investigation to improve student’s ability in writing
descriptive text. There were two cycles applied in conducting this study.
Each cycle consisted of two meetings. According to Kemmis and Mc
Taggart there are four components in one cycle for doing classroom action
research.

It consists of 4 steps:

a) Planning Plan as the first step of research to identified the problems. It is

a plan to conduct treatments. So, it can improve students’ listening skill.

11
b) Acting After planning the concept, the writer carried out the treatment
referring to the plan has been made. The writer conducted a pre-cycle
before applying the treatment.

c) Observing Observation is the activity of observing the data collected in

order to know Investigation as learning method, students would be able to
increase their writing ability. What extent the action activities have reached
the objectives of the study. In this step, the writer identified and analyzed
the data collected during the treatment

d) Reflecting Reflection is the activity of evaluating critically the progress

or change of the students. In this step, the writer could observe whether the
action activity any resulted improvement. To support the study, the
researcher used interview and test to gather the data

B. Data and Source

In this research, the researcher takes samples on the students of 7th
grade at SMP AL ISLAM KARTASURA. They were from VII E students of
SMP AL ISLAM KARTASURA. They were consisted of 29 students.

C. Technique of data collection

According to Creswell, there are 3 kinds of data collection techniques

such as: Experiencing, enquiring, and examining. Experiencing is collecting
data by observing and taking field notes, Enquiring is collecting data by
asking people for information, and examining is collecting data by using
recorder.Method of data collections is very important in the research,
according to Arikunto data source in research is basically subject which is a
researcher gets the data. To collect the data, the researcher use technique
Observation. Observation is the process of observe and write the

12
phenomena that happened in class systematically. In this research,
observation is done during the action research as a method to observe the
teaching process and the students’ activity. The researcher observed the
event in class during the lesson or the treatment using check list to get the
data. Observation checklist is used to make the observation process easier,
the aspect that observed are concern to teacher explanation, being
enthusiastic, seriousness in discussion, responding to question, asking
question and accomplishing the task.

D. Technique of Data Analysis

This study used descriptive statistical analysis to find out the

improvement of students’ ability in listening skill. Technique of data
analysis that the researcher used Technique of analyzing data from the
observation. The observation in this research was conducted four times,
before the treatment or preliminary research, during cycle I, cycle II, and
cycle III. The researcher gave check in the observation checklist, and then it
will be analyzed by calculating the percentage from the checklist as the
pattern below:

𝑛
Percentage % = x 100%
𝑁

n = the score of students

N = the sum of total score
% = the percentage of the explanation.

13
The criteria of observation were as follows:
a. Poor The aspect of activity that was observed above reaches out
for about 20%
b. Fair The aspect of activity that was observed above reaches out
for about 20%- 40%
c. Average The aspect of activity that was observed above reaches
out for about 40%-60%
d. Good The aspect of activity that was observed above reaches out
for about 60%-80%
e. Excellent The aspect of activity that was observed above reaches
out for about 100%

14
 Bibliography

Nation I.S.P and J Newton, Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and

Speaking, New York: Roudlege,2009

Littlewood William, Communicate Language Teaching An

Introduction, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Ytlberg and Scoot, Teaching English for Children, New York:

Longman, 1990

A Renandya Willy and Jack C Richard, Methodology in Language

Teaching, USA :Cambridge University Press New York,2002

Prayoga Moch. Ridwan, Teaching Listening Skill Using Audio

Lingual Method at First Grade Students of Asrama Bengkel Bahasa

Course, Bandung: STKIP) Siliwangi,2012

Carol Gray and Jenny Moffet, Handbook of Veterinary

Communication Skills, USA: Blackwell, 2010

15