STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF USING ENGLISH SONGS FOR LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT EIGHT GRADE IN SMPN 1
DAU MALANG
SKRIPSI
BY:
FARA MUFRIDA NPM: 218.01.07.3.169
UNIVERSITY OF ISLAM MALANG
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
JULY, 2022
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STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF USING ENGLISH SONGS FOR LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT EIGHT GRADE IN SMPN 01 DAU
MALANG
SKRIPSI Presented to
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Islam Malang
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana in English Language Education
BY
FARA MUFRIDA NPM 21801073169
UNIVERSITY OF ISLAM MALANG
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
JULY, 2022
ABSTRACT
Mufrida, Fara. 2022. Students’ Perception of Using English Songs for Listening Comprehension at Eight Grade in SMPN 01 Dau Malang. Skripsi. English Education Department Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Islam Malang.
Advisor I: Dzurriyyatun Ni’mah, S.S., M.Pd.; Advisor II: Dr.
Hamiddin, S.Pd., M.Pd.
Keywords: Students’ Perception, English songs, Listening Comprehension This research presents the students’ perception of using English songs for listening comprehension. Listening comprehension is very important because it is a process through which students get input and without its comprehension learning does not happen. When teaching listening, especially listening comprehension, the teacher is necessary to select the right media and materials for the students to use in listening comprehension process.
Furthermore, song is one of the interesting media for teaching listening to Junior High School students. This study aimed to investigate and describe the students’ perceptions of using English songs for listening comprehension, at the eighth grade students of SMPN 01 Dau Malang.
The design of this research is descriptive qualitative research. The participants of this research are the eighth grade students of SMPN 01 Dau Malang in 2022 academic year, which consisted of 30 students. To know the students’ perception of using English songs for listening comprehension, questionnaire and interview were used as the instruments for collecting data.
The instruments are adapted from Pitaloka (2019), by considering on three aspects which include: students’ perception of using English songs, the benefit or advantages of using English songs for listening, and the challenges of using English songs for listening comprehension. The process of data analysis included data reduction, data displ.ay, and conclusion drawing and verification.
The findings of this study showed the students’ perceptions of using English songs for listening comprehension were positive in some aspects such as the students felt enjoy, happy and fun in learning listening using English songs. Besides, the students can improve and develop several English skills, especially listening, vocabulary and pronunciation skills. Most students also felt easy to understand the meaning content in the songs. Just a few of students stated that they were difficult to understand the message meaning in
the songs. In addition, English songs in learning listening process also made them difficult to concentrate because they friends were noisy.
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
This chapter provides the background elements of the research. This chapter introduces the background of the study, the research problem, the objective of the study, the significance of the study, the scope and limitation of the study, the definition of key terms.
1.1 Background of the Study
Listening is a mental activity that is conscious of what is being heard. Through listening, someone is able to listen information by understanding the information well (Durmus, 2015). Listening is the ability to identify and understand what others say.
The process of understanding the spoken language is often called listening comprehension. Listening comprehension is the ability to listen, process it and understand its meaning.
According to Rost (1994) and Ziane (2011), listening comprehension is very important because it is a process through which students get input and without its comprehension learning does not happen. When teaching listening, especially listening comprehension, the teacher is necessary to select the right media and materials for the students to use in listening comprehension process. The media and materials should be interesting to catch the students’ attention and possess the
2 comprehensible input to help the students to comprehend the meaning in listening comprehension process (Ananda, 2019).
Moreover, Lynch (2008) mentions that there are three factors that contributed to the listening comprehension of the song. First, the use of new vocabulary, idioms, and expressions which needs to address the new material offered in each song.
Second, pronunciation and accent of the singer, In this case, the students may be exposed to an accent which is outside the realm of what they might normally hear in context. Third, the use of new grammar and structure song, In short, by listening the song students will get new vocabulary, idioms, and expressions, learn how to pronounce the words, and learn new grammar and structure so that they build up their knowledge to develop their listening skill.
Furthermore, Song is one of the interesting media for teaching listening to Junior High School students. Songs are useful for listening comprehension, students can memorize the words because it is familiar and easy to listen and repeat for them.
Besides, students also feel happy and enthusiastic about learning English. It also provides an enjoyable situation for students. According to Sari (2022), songs can create a positive atmosphere in the classroom and thereby reduce effective filters.
Using song is actually very fun because of the suggestions of music and songs can bring the students unto the rest, relax and free from under pressure environments (Oktafiani, 2019: 20).
Same research about songs for listening comprehension was done by several researchers. First, in the research that conducted by Nurhasanah (2022) in her research “Students Perception on the use of English Songs in Auditory Learning =
3 Listening Skill”. The purpose of this study was to take a look at how the use of English song affects students who have an Auditory learning style and their perception on the effects. The result of this research showed that music has an enormous impact on learning, especially language learning. Although the helpfulness of English song in auditory learning is proven, there are still some students who feel like this learning method is not for them because students feel that they have different competences and different ways to comprehend or memorize lessons they receive.
Secondly, a study was conducted by Chaidir (2021) entitled “Students’
Perception on the Use of Songs in the English Learning Process”. The purpose of this study was to explore of English students’ perception on the use of English song in the learning process”. The result of the research showed that the use of English songs could give many good effects that can be very useful for the students.
Therefore, it gives benefits to students’ speaking and listening skill, also give a support to increase students’ writing skill and give positivity to their English language elements comprehension.
From the several previous studies above, the researcher found that there are some results that are obtained related using song. It is concluded that the students’ use of songs for listening activities was effective and give enormous impact for students.
Moreover, this study is conducted for listening comprehension, whereas, previous researchers have not researched related listening comprehension. There is also a different level of subject between the recent and the previous studies.
Therefore, based on explanations above the researcher is interested in doing this research. The researcher believes that many perceptions would emerge, such as the
4 pro and contra of changing the listening learning system. The research was conducted in eight grade of SMPN 01 Dau Malang in the academic year of 2022/2023. The researches choose SMPN 01 Dau Malang as object research, because there were no previous researchers who used this school as the research area, especially about the English subject. There is also no previous research that had been conducted in this school related to the English songs as material in teaching Listening comprehension.
So, this study aims to determine the students' perceptions of using English songs for listening comprehension.
1.2 The Research Problem
Based on the background of the study stated above, the research problem in this study is “How are the students’ perceptions of songs at the sosial media in listening comprehension class?”
1.3 The Objective of Study
According to the problem of the study above, the research aims to investigate and describe the students’ perceptions of using English songs for Listening comprehension.
1.4 The Significance of the Study
This study is expected to give significant information and suggestion for three aspects, English teacher, English students at Junior high school, and researchers.
5 1) For Teachers
It is expected that this study can give valuable information for the teachers in teaching listening comprehension using English songs, particularly English teacher of SMPN 01 Dau Malang. The finding of this research hopefully can inspire them to teach their students listening comprehension in effective ways.
Afterward from the perceptions of the students, the teachers can observe the level of students’ understanding when they study listening comprehension through English songs. Moreover, this study can be guided for the teachers to enrich their material and media in improving their students’ listening ability.
2) For Students
It is also expected that this study can give valuable information for the students in using English songs for listening comprehension and it expected to be able to promote students skill in learning English especially in listening comprehension.
3) For Researchers
This research is expected to be able to inspect this topic deeper and can perfect this research.
1.2 The Scope and Limitation of the Study
In this study, the subject is the Eight Grade students of SMPN 01 Dau Malang. Furthermore, the researcher limited the problem mainly to explore the perception of the students in using English songs for listening comprehension. So, the
6 researcher provides an offline questionnaire and interview as the research instruments for collecting the data which are adapted from previous study.
1.5 The Definition of Key Terms
To avoid misunderstanding of the research, the researcher wants to define some key terms as follows.
a. Student’ Perception
Students’ perception is a psychological capacity to process and interpret an occurrence that has been or has occurred. In this study, students’
perception is shown in the response to the questionnaire given to the students’
of using English songs to learn listening comprehension.
b. English Songs
According to Sari (2022), Song is the art of tone or sequential sound;
expressing feelings combined with music or instruments and conveyed accompanied by rhythm, tone and produced a temporal relationship. Besides, song is a good tool to help the process of learning English (Nurhayati, 2009).
In this research, songs are the media used by teacher for teaching listening skill.
c. Listening comprehension
Listening comprehension is the way of understanding what the native speaker says (Darwesh, 2014). In this study, listening comprehension means understanding of the meaning of message in English songs, which students’
listen during learning English.
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
This chapter presents the conclusions and suggestions of the research. The conclusions were composed of research findings and discussions, while suggestions came up with some ideas which were addressed to English teachers, students, and future researchers who take interest in the field of student perceptions of using English songs for listening comprehension.
1.1 Conclusion
Based on the finding in the previous chapter, the researcher concludes that the use of English songs for listening comprehension at eight grade in SMPN 01 Dau Malang can be got positive perceptions or agree of using English song for listening comprehension. The students also agree that songs were good and appropriate to be applied in listening class, which made the students enthusiastic in learning English.
Another advantage from learning through songs was that the students did not feel bored or sleepy in the class because the lesson became enjoyable and the class’
atmosphere became fun. It can be seen from the significantly percentage from the questionnaire and result of interview.
Most students stated that learning listening using English songs could improve several English skills such as vocabulary, pronunciation, speaking, spell English, grammar and listening, because it is easy to learn. Moreover, more than half students
2 agreed that pronunciation, vocabulary and listening could improve more when the students learn using English songs for listening comprehension.
Besides the positive perceptions of using English songs for listening comprehension, some students stated that using English songs for listening comprehension also has negative perceptions. The first was a few students felt concentration was distracted because some students were too noisy. The second was came from the weakness caused by the song, some words found in the song were unfamiliar, so the students felt difficult to understand the meaning in the song.
1.2 Suggestions
The researcher provides a number of suggestions related to this study. There will be three suggestions to be presented. The first suggestion is for the English teachers. The second suggestion is for the students and the third suggestion is for the future researchers.
5.2.1 For the English Teacher
Teachers usually have a difficulty in selecting the most appropriate songs to be used in class. The researcher found that some students get difficulty to understand the words because the pronunciation in the songs was unclear and sometimes the songs were too fast, so they could not hear the words. In order to overcome this problem, teacher also should be able to select songs that are not too slow or too fast.
3 Besides, the teacher also should be able to select song lyrics that are easy for students to understand.
5.2.2 For The Students
The students will be able to increase their listening comprehension by using various media in learning, especially using English songs. English songs can make students fun, enjoy and very interesting in learning listening. In addition, English songs are one of the media that suitable for students to be used in any situation.
5.2.3 For The Future Researchers
This research is expected to be useful for other researchers and also can be a reference or inspiration for future researchers who are interested in the field of students’ perceptions of using English songs for listening comprehension. In the next research, to verify the result clearer and more detailed, future researchers can use more instruments and participants in data collection.
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