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Putri Kurniawan Aprilia (21701073108)
Fitri Herni Ika Sari (21701073123)
Aida Aqilatur Rofidah (21701073128)
Abstract
This article discusses about the effectiveness of song towards the students’ listening
comprehension and their learning strategies for National Examination preparation in senior high
school. It is also pointed for English as one of the course tested in National Examination. The
learning strategies that using song also will explain in this article. The teacher applied the
particular songs at beginning of listening class to attract and increase the students’ ability. The
teacher use song because it fits with students’ needs and the problems happened in the listening
class. Through the qualitative method, the data gathered showed that listening song can improve
listening skill. Listening skill is one of skill in the English that should be mastered by students.
To improve listening skill, students can exercise through listening song because listening song
has the benefits to improve listening skill easily. It can be assumed that using songs strategies
can help the students in Senior High School to improve their listening skill.
Keywords: Listening, Song, Improve, Listening-skill.
Introduction
When we learn about the English, there are four skills which have to be mastered, such as
listening, speaking, reading, and writing skill. Listening is one of the skills that must comprehend
especially for student in Senior High School, so that is why listening strategies are very needed.
Listening ability is an important skill that has to be mastered by individuals in building a good
students, therefore it must be applied in the learning process in the classroom at senior high
school. In order to students easily take the exam. Through listening, students can get good
pronunciation and learn many useful words, phrases, and sentences. That is the reason why
listening have to be learned by student especially in Senior High School. Good teaching
strategies and methodologies are needed in teaching and learning activity in listening class
because students have to understand what they hear and learn. And then listening skill are rarely
taught by teachers in the classroom. This is the reason why we are interested in this issue
From the listening, we can develop and apply a good communication with others. As Hidayat
(2013) states “Listening ability is the important that have to be mastered by individuals in
building a good communication”. That is why we must improve our listening skill. In building a
good communication, students have to understand the meaning of the conversation. In addition,
listening is also pointed for English as one of the course tested in National Examination. As
Anwar (2013) states “listening becomes one of the two skills among four which is examined in
the national examination in senior high school”. So, teachers have to start teaching and learning
about listening ability for their students. But now, the teachers just give listening practices before
they teach listening skill for their students. According to Filliana (2009), when in the class, the
teachers tend to give the students the practice than teaching listening ability. It makes the
students not understand what they have learned. From those cases, the teachers have to teach
listening ability in the class. The teachers must also have the strategies or methods that make the
students easy and enjoy learning listening. It can be assumed that using songs strategies can help
the students in Senior High School to improve their listening skill. Because, when the students
have a lot of listening, they will get use to and improve their listening skill.
Discussion
This article was written about improving listening skill for students in senior high school.
The authors found the strategies to improve their listening skill by using song. First of all,
listening song is the easy way to improve listening skill because teachers and students can easily
search English song everywhere. According to Listiyaningsih (2017), song is the easy media to
improve listening skill because it is easy to find, and it can train the ears to listen about English.
The teachers not only teach their students by hearing the recording in the class but also give
another practice out of the class, such as listening to music. That can also become the great
strategy to prepare students’ listening comprehension for National Examination. With the
learning media, it can improve students’ interest about their lesson. (Mcerlain & Ramon Caande,
1999) said that “however, the use of media is also of potential academic interest”. So, teachers
and students can start teaching and learning process easily for listening by using song.
Second, the students can enjoy learning listening by using songs because songs have many
varieties and the duration is not too long. Usually, the students just hear the recording to practice
their listening skill. It can make the students bored and lazy with their lesson. Using song is the
best choices to learn listening skill. It does not make students bored because song provides a
comfort for students in the class. For example, songs have a lot of genre that can make everyone
enjoy when they listen it. Lo and Li (1998) said that “songs are able to change the monotonous
mood in the class and with the smoothing effect of music and provide a comfortable class
environment so that students can develop their listening skill more easily”. Besides that, song
becomes the good media to learn listening skill, and it has many varieties that can be selected by
teachers and students. According to Izzah (2014), using songs is a good media for students
because it has many varieties such as meaningful and popular songs, and songs that more
familiar or well-known should be selected for students. And then, the short and slow songs are
recommended for students that are in the listening basic lesson. Griffe (1992) said that using
short and slow songs are recommended for students in beginner level. It is believed that songs
Third, the students will be able to know how the pronunciation of English vocabulary
correctly. Song is short piece of music with words that we sing. Song in general is music for
singing. And when we sing, exactly we know how to pronunciation. Pronunciation is the way we
(2017) states “The students will be able to know how the pronunciation of English vocabulary
correctly. The people can imitate how the pronunciation from the words that they heard when
they listen to the music”. With the listening song, it can be helpful and increase their listening
skill. Because in the song or contain of the song mentioning the vocabularies which have been
heard on the song and exactly the student know how to pronunciation. Unconsciously it learns
the ears to can listen comprehensively and when there are in listening class, people who listen to
the English song can comprehend the mean of the text in listening (Listiyaningsih, 2017).
Conclusion
In short, using song can be easier to improve listening skill because song is easy to find,
has many varieties and has short duration, and knowing the pronunciation of English vocabulary
correctly. So, using song strategies can help the students in Senior High School to improve their
listening skill. Using song can be easy way to learn about listening skill, and it can inspired the
student to be more spirit and enjoy in the process teaching of listening activity. Therefore using
song should be applied in teaching and learning process in senior high school especially in
listening skill. Then it is the good strategy to help students to prepare their listening
Hidayat, A. (2013). The Use of Song in Teaching Student Listening Ability . 21-29.
Listiyaningsih, T. (2017). The Influence of Listening English Song to Improve Listening Skill In
Listening Class. 36-49.