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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents a brief description of the study that is conducted by the
writer. In this chapter there are six subtitles. They are : (1) background of the study, (2)
problem of the study, (3) purpose of the study, (4) research hypothesis, (5) Significance
of the study, (6) scope and limitation of the study, and (7) definition of key-terms.
person was still a kid. In Indonesia, English is one of foreign languages that is taught in
primary school. It is not only known as a foreign language, but also learnt from school
to university live.
(2017) stated that many native speakers even agreeing about English is a "bad"
language. It is caused not only by its different word construction but also the
pronunciation, the grammar, the writing and the vocabulary mastery. Between all of
them, vocabulary mastery is the most important thing. In the writer personal experience
in primary school, the writer often faced hard time while studied English. Now, primary
school teachers should recognize what kind of teaching technique can be used to attract
that without enough vocabulary, no one will understand each other. Indeed, people need
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to use words in order to express themselves in any language. Most learners know the
importance of vocabulary skill. In the writer experience as a teacher, the writer noticed
the fact that students usually find it difficult to speak English fluently. The students
think that speaking and writing activities are tiring because they use the same
expressions and words and very soon their conversation interrupted caused by missing
words.
Another reason that also happened is the problem of forgetting the words immediately
after the teacher tell the meaning or after they read the words in the dictionary book, and
this also a cause of the lack of vocabulary. The more words students learn, the easier
like song is helpful enough because it is familiar in our daily life. Miranti, Engliana and
Hapsari (2015:171) also said that a song as a media is giving a good impact in
developing students' vocabulary mastery. Law (2014) also said that children ages are
active learners not only at home but also at school. Recine (2015) said that to improve
the vocabulary, students have to read transcripts as they listen. Since listening popular
English song is one of students interests, they will enjoy while reading the transcript and
prove this by their conclusion in their study that a song could help students to improve
their vocabularies, even attracting their interest to study English and enjoyed it.
Muflihah (2017:372) also states that using English song is profitable for
improve students vocabulary mastery. Bloomsbury International (2013) states that using
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songs as learning material is helpful for learn and remember new vocabulary
and idioms. Singing along using popular English songs will help students to remember
touch, smell, taste, hearing (sound) is the easiest way to learn. By listening to a popular
song, the students are using the sighting sense and hearing sense. They also can both
learn and have fun in the relax atmosphere. The students easily remember their
experiences that connected with physical involvement. These experiences are the
activities happen in the classroom, which involves the senses, what they feel, what they
see and what they hear. They can get these experiences through songs.
So far, to master English skill the students must be able to apply one of the
Alchieri (2017) said that listening to song is a great way to learn English. When
listening to a song, new words that the students never heard before will be obtained by
them. Also, some words that have different context and meaning will be noticed by the
students. Music in the other hand will help their brain more receptive to hearing
English.
Zazulak (2015) stated that between music and memory there is not only have a
strong link but also have a similar areas of the brain that activated when listen or play
Edinburgh by Ludke, Ferreira, & Overy (2013:50-51) found that get longer memories is
the benefit of learning foreign languages through songs and the pitch structure to verbal
song, the teacher should appeal to all the physical senses. The students should both hear
and see all new words. However, listening to the music to the students is better way to
attract their interest in English word, because it is important and necessary for student’s
Based on the explanation above, the writer wants to find the influence of
listening popular English songs to the students’ vocabulary mastery of the fourth grade
students of SDN 005 SAMARINDA in 2018 / 2019 academic year. The writer chooses
the fourth grade students of SDN 005 SAMARINDA as the sample study because they
The writer choose two English popular song as the media of this study because
a numbers of reasons. The first reason is the students of SDN 005 SAMARINDA have
limited vocabulary. Well, as the writer said before it is the first time they introduced
into English, so it will be a little bit strange for them to learn. They also like to listen to
song so it will be an attraction for them to learn English much and more. Then these
songs are quite popular among the students. After that, the songs are easy to memorize,
simple and limited in number of characters. Also, these songs are the original
soundtrack of Disney Movie, which suitable for all ages. Last, the vocabulary of the
songs has been suitable with the English curriculum of the school.
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Based on the background of the study above, the writer formulates the problem
of the study as follow: “How is the influence of teaching listening by using popular
English songs to the students’ vocabulary mastery of the fourth grade students of SDN
Based on the problem as mentioned above, the writer would like: To find out
the influence of listening popular English songs to the students’ vocabulary mastery in
form of scores attained by the fourth grade students of SDN 005 SAMARINDA in 2018
D. Research Hypothesis
1. The Null Hypothesis (Ho) “Listening to popular English songs does not improve
It is expected that this study can give information to the primary school
popular songs.
It is expected that this study can give fundamental facts for further
Due to limited time, fund and energy (facilities), the scope of this study is only
focused on listening English popular songs to improve the student’s vocabulary mastery
and given listening English popular songs to the students about three times for each
song.
The population is taken from fourth grade students of SDN 005 SAMARINDA
in 2018 / 2019 academic year and the song are Idina Menzel “Let It Go”, lyrics written
by Kristen Anderson-Lopez / Robert J. Lopez and Ariana Grande featuring John Legend
“Beauty and The Beast”, lyrics written by Alan Menken / Howard Ashman.
G. Definition of Key-Terms
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1. Influence in this study means the effect or result of listening English popular
2. Listening English popular songs means to only give a media with sounds but not
with any visual media. The teacher also gave the students some papers that they
can fill in and completing the lyrics. This method is used to improve the
3. Mastery means to the scores achieved by the sample of students in given test on
English vocabulary.
4. Vocabulary mastery means the words which have been mastered by the students
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
chapter, the writer will explain the relation of the previous study and this study. There
are five subtitles in this chapter. They are : (1) the concept of vocabulary, (2) teaching
vocabulary , (3) teaching vocabulary by listening popular song, (4) curriculum of study,
Vocabulary is the most important thing to learn English. In order to get clear
description of vocabulary, the writer would give the following definition. According to
Lestari (2015:5) said that vocabulary is the first thing to master in learning English.
qualified English vocabulary because without that the teacher cannot using the language
orally or written. The important of mastering English vocabulary is connected with the
duty of teacher as a mediator and facilitator or someone who provides students with the
Based on the explanation above, the writer can conclude for the word of
used as the range of word that known to all individual when they used the language.
With this in mind, it is stated that vocabulary is word that have meaning after
we build them up with the good rules and we can use them to the other as language. In
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addition, by language we can say something from our mind. As a result, listener can
understand what we mean and they give response for our language. And vocabulary also
means words which have meaning when heard or seen even though not produced by the
student to communicate with the others students who try to understand speaking,
Words are made up of part of words such as suffixes, prefixes, and stems. The
smallest parts of expression associated with some meaning are called morpheme. For
example, the word “girls” consist of a single morpheme and it consist of two
Learning vocabulary is dealing with the lexicon or dictionary that can show the
content words and function words. Content words are word with lexical meaning that
we can find in a dictionary. Function words are word that show the grammatical
relationship or words in sentence. Beare (2017) stated that there are 2 types of words,
which it is called content words and function words. The different is that content words
are giving the important information, while the function word is a key to understanding
the content word. Content words are divided into four classes, namely noun, verb,
B. Teaching Vocabulary
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vocabulary that words used in speaking and receptive vocabulary that words used in
listening. Then, according to Linse (2005:121), vocabulary is the words collection that
languages since learners learn vocabulary first before they master more complex
structure.
his students have good understanding on new words being learned. Hunt and Beglar in
describe three approaches to vocabulary teaching and learning, they are incidental
While vocabulary is the most important thing, the easiest way to teach it is
using listening, especially popular song. Listening is used in this thesis, which can
improve students' vocabulary easier. Andy (2011) write in BBC Teaching English that
there are three way to teach vocabulary through listening. They are miming verbs,
Dictionary work and matching. Borisai and Dennis (2016:91) said that the students are
agreeing to learning vocabulary through pop song. This technique could promote the
student in learning new vocabulary through the pop songs that they usually to listen.
Furthermore, Cahyaningsari and Saleh (2016:95) said that one of an effective media is
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lyrics of the song that can be used to learn English. Their statement is supported by the
result of their research which proves there is an improvement of student's score before
and after learning vocabulary with and without songs. In this study, the writer uses two
popular songs. Popular song is a song that popular enough, or known to the students.
"Let It Go" and "Beauty and The Beast" are songs the writer use, which are popular
among the students. Recine (2015) also stated that if learners listen to a song while read
D. Curriculum of Study
SDN 005 SAMARINDA using K13 Curriculum as the teaching guide. Hartati
(2014) stated that there are 3 cognitive loads for the 4th grader to learn English. These
cognitive loads are affected by their ages, ability and senses or their motor activities.
The first thing is they loved to play. They hardly study English in a serious case
like the middle school student do because of their ages that still young. The second load
is they loved to works in group. From the writer experience, works in group and pair is
easier for learn English because the member of pair and group can help each other. But
in the other side, the ability of the students is different. For example, student A and
student B are a pair in works, but student A ability is much higher that student B. It will
be all work of student A if student B does not understand the material. The third load is
they likes to senses and doing something like demonstrating and role playing something
like dialogues in a fairytale. They also like to listen to song in this age, based on the
writer experience.
Then, from the three loads above, the writer is giving a treatment by using a
song to attract them because the writer sure that they will be happy to listen to the song
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as played and have a relax atmosphere in class. They also can sing together after
completing the lyrics so it will also makes them relax. For the words, the teacher
chooses words that included in their curriculum in school, so it will help them to learn
the next material. In the curriculum, the competency standard is understand very simple
instructions with actions in a class context while the basic competency are (1) Respond
by acting in accordance with the instructions gratefully in the context of the class and
(2) Responding to a very simple instruction verbally in the context of the class.
They will learn about colors, numbers and greetings according to the syllabus.
The writer already chooses some words for the treatment that connected to the
In this study the researcher quotes some studies that have similar topic.
First, a study conducted by Cahyaningsari and Saleh (2016). They conducted a study
about teaching English using mixed song lyrics that improved the student
observation sheet, interview sheet, questionnaire, pre-test and post test as instrument
to collecting the data. The result of their study showed that song lyrics can be
The second study is conducted by Miranti, Engliana and Hapsari (2015). They
conducted a study about teaching English vocabulary using English nursery rhymes that
improved the vocabulary of kindergarten students. The design of this study is qualitative
case study. They used a counseling sheet and observation sheet as instrument to
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collecting the data. The result of their study showed that a song as a media is giving a
The third study is conducted by Law (2014). He conducted a study showed that
listening will improved children's vocabulary even without testing. The design of this
instrument to collecting the data. The result of his study showed that children are active
learners and it's not only in their home but also in school.
show how to improved English vocabularies. The design of this study is qualitative
descriptive. He used observation sheet as instrument to collecting the data. The result of
his study showed that to build vocabulary, the transcripts can read by the learners as
they listen, then underline or write down vocabulary that is new to them.
The fifth study is conducted by Borisai and Dennis (2016). They conducted
a study about pop songs that promote students’ ability in learning new vocabulary.
The design of this study is quantitative experimental. They used observation sheet,
questionnaire, pre-test and post test as instrument to collecting the data. They
analyze the data using mean and standard deviation of the data. The result of their
study showed that this technique can help students in learning new vocabulary
through the pop songs that they usually to listen. It also motivating them to learn,
then encouraged their attention and motivating in learning vocabulary because they
were happy to learn with their friends and found it easier to remember the
vocabulary. The study through pop song is creating a fun activity in a relaxed and
having a good attitude in learn English, also they could use English with greater
confidence.
Based on the earlier study above, the writer thinks that it is necessary to
conduct the research with quite similar topic, but at the same time different with the
previous studies above. The title of this thesis is "The Influence of Listening Popular
English Songs to the Students’ Vocabulary Mastery of The Fourth Grade Students of
SDN 005 SAMARINDA in 2018 / 2019 Academic Year". In this research, the writer is
analyzing the student vocabulary mastery using their score in pre-test and post test. The
writer using experimental quantitative in this thesis and will do observation also giving
pre-test and post test to collect the data, which it is the student's score. The writer also
uses a full English song as the treatment. The writer hopes this thesis can help the
CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter will present the method of the study, also the explanation of the
method used in this study. In this chapter there are five sections. They are : (1) research
design, (2) population and sample, (3) research instrument, (4) Data collection
A. Research Design
quantitative design is a design that finished the study by do an experiment to the sample.
The characteristic of experimental design is the measurements are taken before and after
treatment, that known as pretest and posttest, and comparing the measurements (in this
study is the score) between the control group and the experimental group. In this study,
the experimental group is given a treatment, which is popular English song and the
In this study, the writer uses one of Fraenkel’s experimental research designs is
Randomized Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design. The writer uses this design because
it will show whether treatment is succeed or not simply by comparing the score of the
control group and the experimental group (2012:272). Fraenkel Randomized Pretest-
RE O1 X O2
R
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RC O3 C O4
Where:
R : Random Sampling
C : Non Treatment
After getting the sample, the writer divides the sample into two groups by
giving the pretest, Experimental group representing as the group which is given
treatment (listening English Popular Song) and Control group representing as the group
Before giving treatment, the writer will give a pretest and use the score as the
basic score. After giving treatment to Experimental group, both groups are given
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Posttest which aims to see the influence between Experimental group and Control
group.
The population of this research is the fourth grade students of SDN 005
SAMARINDA in 2017/2018 academic year. The writer used purposive sampling that
Fraenkel, Wallen and Hyun (2012:100) stated it is based on the writer personal
judgment of previous information about the population that will present data that the
writer need.
The procedure in dividing the samples is simple enough. The writer divides
them based on their class in the school, which have lowest mean score in their daily
C. Research Instrument
Fraenkel (2012:113) stated that there are two basic ways to acquire an
instrument. They are using previously existing instrument that already tested and an
instrument the writer makes personally or had been made by someone else. In this case,
the sentences. The writer used multiple choices because of two reasons. First, according
to Chun-mei (2007:43) multiple choices test is the most objective and easier in scoring.
Then, Öztürk (2007:400) also stated that multiple choices test can be managed quickly,
easier in scoring, can be applied in a short time even it is used in a big population, easy
The test is arranged based on the word that they have to mastered based on the
competency. The numbers of test items are 50, divides into 2 for pre-test and posttest
with duration 35 minutes, using the rules from the English teacher in the school, and
will use 4 choices each number. The test will be divided as follows:
a. Noun : Numbers
b. Adjective : Colors
c. Adverb : Greetings
Meanwhile, to get the raw score of the student, based on Fraenkel (2012:189),
S = R X wt
Where:
S : Score Obtain
wt : Weight
And only the correct answer are calculated and scored, while the wrong
Before the test is given to the sample of this study, it will try out to students of
SDN 005 SAMARINDA in two high-grade classes with the total test 35 items. The
aims of giving try-out test are to find the difficulty index, the discrimination power,
The writer used difficulty index to qualify how good or bad the item is. It is to
identify whether each item is easy, fair or difficulty ones. A good test item is the item
that is not too easy or too difficult. The formula applied to find the difficulty index (DI)
B B ❑ H+ L 2❑
DIF = × 1001
JS JS T 5
Where:
Difficulty. Then, the result of index difficulty is classified into the followings:
Therefore, the good item is the item which has the D = 50% – 60%.
The discrimination index of a test is the test which can differentiate between
high capability students and low capability students. A test item which can or not be
answered by both high and low capability students, is said not good because it does not
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have discrimination power. A good test is a test which can be answered by the smart
students only.
All of the students divided into two groups, upper and lower group. The
formula used to find out the discrimination power as stated by Mahjabeen (2017:311) as
follows:
H−L
DI = 2 × ×100
T
Where:
DI : Discrimination Index
H : Number of the student in upper group who answer correctly
L : Number of the student in lower group who answer correctly
T : Number of all students
Therefore, the good item is the item which has discrimination power between
0.21 – 0.35.
3. Validity
For validating the test, the writer use criterion-related evidence of validity that
validity, the writer comparing the performance on one instrument that being validated
assessment procedure that used to measure the same variable. Because the instrument
has been designed to measure academic ability, student scores on the instrument is
compared with their grade-point averages, as the external criterion. If the instrument
does indeed measure academic ability, then students who score high on the test would
The key index for the validity is the correlation coefficient. It is symbolized by
the letter r, that indicates the degree of relationship that exists between the scores
between +1.00 and -1.00. An r of .00 indicates that no relationship exists. To measure
the correlation, the formula applied is product moment correlation by Carl Pearson, or
usually called Pearson Product-Moment correlation. When the data for both variables
are expressed in terms of quantitative scores, the Pearson r is the appropriate correlation
coefficient to use. It assumes that the relationship is best described by a straight line.
n ∑ xy−∑ x ∑ y
r =
√ ¿¿ ¿
Where:
y : Range between try out test score and the student grade-
point score,
4. Reliability
Reliability refers to how consistent they are for each individual from an
instrument to another and from one set of items to another. It is said that the more
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similar the scores would have been, the more reliable the test is said to be. A test is
reliable if we get the similar scores from the same students with the same ability but a
different time.
K M ( K−M )
KR 21=
K −1 [
1−
K ( SD 2) ]
Where:
The procedures used to collect the data will be the following steps:
3. Giving the same test (Posttest) to Experimental and Control group and the mean
score of the two groups are compared to see the significant influence by using t-
test.
4. The instrument that is used to collect the data is multiple choices testing which
has been tried out to the fourth grade students of SDN 005 SAMARINDA.
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In analyzing the data, to find out the significant influence between listening
English popular songs and without listening English popular songs, the writer uses t-
test. This analysis is used to determine the significant influence of listening English
Ma−Mb
t=
Sa 2 Sb 2
√ +
Na Nb
Where:
From the formula above, the formulas of Mean score and Standard Deviation
1. Mean Score
M=
∑X
N
Where:
M : Mean score
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∑ X2
SD=
√ N
Where:
SD : Standard deviation
3. df(Degree of Freedom)
df =N 1+ N 2−2
Where:
df : Degree of freedom
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