Richards et al, vocabulary is a core component of language skills and provides much of the basis for how well learners speak, listen, write and read.1 Based on the statement above, it can be concluded that vocabulary must be mastered by students in order to to learn English successfully. The result of the study is expected to be able to make a contribution in education aspect especially in learning process such as theoretical and practical. In other words, hyponyms are a sentence relationship between predicates (or somewhat longer phrases) such that the meaning of one predicate is included in the meaning of the other.
Interest
The cognitive aspect is based on concepts children develop about the areas related to the interest. In other words, there is a correlation between pleasure and the emergence of interest, because pleasure will generate interest in the objects and people that satisfy them. Although no predisposition to a field, but with habits and practice can lead to the emergence of attention to a field.
English Song
From the explanation above, it can be concluded that interest is an active psychological intention related to pleasure, willingness, consciousness/. 37 Jiati Endah Sari et al, “The correlation between students' ability to listen to the English songs and their vocabulary mastery” e-Journal of English Language Teaching Society (ELTS) Vol. 2. Songs must have clear and understandable lyrics. According to explanation above, it can be concluded that song offers students to increase their vocabulary mastery.
Correlation between Students’ Interest in Listening English Song and Vocabulary Mastery
Through singing, students can acquire new vocabulary and understand the meaning of the new word. According to Hancock, songs can be used to focus on the form of the language, including grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.43 Songs are thus suitable authentic language material for developing vocabulary mastery.
Previous Research Findings
In addition, Siti Nurahfia's research investigated the correlative study between students' habit of listening English song and listening performance in the fourth semester of English department class STAIN Ponorogo in the academic year 2012/2013. The result of the study shows that the correlation study between students' usual in listening English song and listening performance was sufficient correlation with the value being significant for α= 5% and α= 1%. In conclusion, listening to English song can improve performance, especially in listening performance, in addition, students' motivation in learning English as a foreign language can.45.
45 Siti Nurahfia, "The Correlative Study Between Students' Habit In Listening To English Song And Listening Performance In The Fourth Semester Of English Department Class STAIN Ponorogo In Academic Year Thesis, STAIN, Ponorogo, 2013). The result of the study showed that there was significant influence between students' listening intensity to English song against their vocabulary power. 46 Jumi'ah, "The impact of students' listening intensity to English song against their vocabulary power (A study on eleventh grade of SMA UNGGULAN NURUL ISLAMI Mijen Semarang in the academic year of dissertation, IAIN Walisongo, Semarang, 2013).
The researcher analyzes the mean score of each test to detect improvements in students' vocabulary mastery after the action. The improvement in students' vocabulary knowledge shows that their mean score in the post-test was higher than the mean score in the pre-test. The latest inspiration comes from Yi-Chun Chen's research titled "The Effect of English Folk Songs on Learning Motivation and Learning Performance".48 The objective of this study was to explore whether the use of English folk songs can improve students' of primary schools. motivation to learn English.
48 Yi-Chun Chen, “The Effect of English Popular Songs on Learning Motivation and Learning Achievement”, WHAMPOA An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Theoretical Framework
The results of this study showed that the majority of students were interested in learning English popular songs and their learning motivation also increased after engaging in this creative teaching activity. Students who are interested in listening to English songs tend to be satisfied while doing this activity. From the explanation above, it can be concluded that students' interest in listening English song can improve vocabulary mastery.
These variables X (Students' interest in listening to English song) as independent variable and Y (Vocabulary mastery) as dependent variable.
Hypothesis
While the so-called, alternative hypothesis (Ha) it a says that the relationship between variables in the population.50. The hypothesis of this research is an alternative hypothesis (Ha) that there is a significant relationship between students' interest in listening to English song and vocabulary mastery in the second semester of English department of STAIN Ponorogo in the academic year 2014/2015.
RESEARCH METHOD
- Research Design
- Population and Sample 1. Population
- Sample
- Instrument of Data Collection
- Validity Test
- Reliability Test
- Technique of Data Collection
- Questionnaire
- Documentation
- Technique of Data Analysis
Variable X was identified as students' interest in listening to English songs and Variable Y was identified as students' mastery of vocabulary. Both students' interest in listening to English songs and vocabulary mastery in the second semester of the English Department of STAIN Ponorogo in the academic year were measured. Students' interest in listening to English songs was measured using questionnaires, and students' vocabulary mastery was obtained from the documentation for the score of the middle test. The result of the test was used to determine whether there was a significant correlation between students' interest in listening to English songs and vocabulary mastery in the second semester of the English department of STAIN Ponorogo in the academic year or not.
In this research, the researcher used the questionnaire method to obtain information from the respondents about the students' interest in listening to the English song in the second semester of the English department of STAIN Ponorogo in the academic year 2014/2015. Interest in listening to English songs and mastering vocabulary in the second semester of the STAIN Ponorogo English department in the academic year 2014/. To test the validity of this instrument, the researcher took a sample of 22 respondents using a 30-item instrument on students' interest in listening to an English song.
The validity calculation of students' interest in listening to English songs can be seen in Appendix 4. There are two types of questionnaires; there is an open-ended questionnaire and an attached questionnaire.64 In this research, the researcher used an attached questionnaire about students' interest in listening to English song in the second semester. In this research, the researcher used the documentation to obtain data on students' vocabulary mastery that can be determined from the midterm test result in the second semester of the English department of STAIN Ponorogo in the academic year.
So to know whether or not there is a significant correlation between students' interest in listening to English songs and vocabulary mastery in the second semester of the English department of STAIN Ponorogo in academic year 2014/2015. If rxy > rt then Ho is rejected/accepted Ha , so baseless, lies between students' interest in listening to English songs and students' vocabulary. If rxy ≤ rt then Ho is accepted/rejected Ha, i.e. unfounded, mean between students' interest in listening to English songs and students' mastery of vocabulary, there is no positive correlation that is so significant.
RESEARCH FINDING
Description of General Data 1. Description of Research Setting
- Time Schedule of Research
Besides that, it also has some missions, such as doing performance in English education implementation and development, doing performance in research implementation for English education development, doing performance in social education in English teaching area, doing academic construction in English education program and last relationship with the other formal and non- formal educational institutions. Graduate students from the English Education Department of State Islamic College of Ponorogo were to be English teachers. It was appropriate with the goal of the English education department of the State Islamic College of Ponorogo that it produced Islamic education bachelor as teachers from the basic education levels to intermediate levels, whose abilities in English teaching in an active way or passive, in oral or written form , have a professional ability to teach it and have an ability related to English teaching.
The research was conducted during the second semester of the English department of STAIN Ponorogo in the academic year 2014/2015.
Data Description
- The Data Description about Students’ Interest in Listening English Song In this description, to get data the researcher conducted by giving a
- The Data Description about Students’ Vocabulary Mastery
Score of students' interest in listening English song No Name Score of students' interest in. From this table 4.2 it is determined that the students' interest in listening English song has variation score. The data was obtained from data documentation students' midterm test at the second semester of STAIN Ponorogo in the academic year 2014/2015.
Data Analysis
- The Result of The Assumption Test for Parametric Statistics
- The Analysis of Students’ Interest in Listening English Song and Vocabulary Mastery
- The Correlation Analysis between Students’ Interest in Listening English Song and Vocabulary Mastery
Normality Test of Students' Interest in Listening to English Song (X variable) and Vocabulary Mastery (Y variable). Homogeneity test of students' interest in listening to the English song (Variable X) and vocabulary mastery (Variable Y). Made the data analysis table of students' interest in listening to the English song in the second semester of the English branch of STAIN Ponorogo in the academic year 2013/2014.
It was conducted to know how much is the standard deviation of students' interest in listening to English songs. The score of students' interest in listening to English songs in the second semester of the English department of STAIN Ponorogo in academic year 2014/2015 could be determined by collecting the above data. From the count above, it could be seen that student interest in listening to English songs during the second semester of the English department of STAIN Ponorogo in the 2014/2015 academic year was very diverse.
The score of students' vocabulary mastery in the second semester of English department of STAIN Ponorogo in the academic year could be determined by accumulating data above. The correlation analysis between students' interest in listening to English singing and vocabulary singing and vocabulary mastery. Ha: There is significant correlation between students' interest in listening to English song and vocabulary mastery in the second semester of English department of STAIN Ponorogo in the academic year 2014/2015.
Thus, it can be said that there was a significant correlation between students' interest in listening to English song and vocabulary mastery in the second semester of English department of STAIN Ponorogo in the academic year 2014/2015.
Interpretation
Discussion
From the data analysis on the correlation between students' interest in listening English songs and vocabulary mastery at the second semester of English department of STAIN Ponorogo in academic year, it found that the indices of coefficient correlation between Variable X and variable Y was 0.646. The data above showed that there was significant correlation between students' interest in listening to English songs and vocabulary mastery at the second semester of English department of STAIN Ponorogo in academic year 2014/. This means that the increasing students' interest in listening English song will follow by increasing students' vocabulary mastery.
By that, there is any tendency if the students' interest in listening English song is good, then the vocabulary mastery will be good.
CLOSING
Conclusion
Suggestion
