Abstract:
This research aims to find the effectiveness of using English electronic
poems as media to improve students’ pronunciation. In order to know the
effectiveness, the researcher compares the result of teaching by using common
method to the result of teaching using English electronic poems.
This research is called experimental research. The population of this
research is the eleventh grade students of senior high school of SMK N 7
Purworejo in the academic year 2015/2016. The sample of research in this
research is 31 students. The sampling technique which is used is purposive
sampling. The test is through pronunciation test (oral test of pronunciation) which
is conducted on September 3rd, 2015 for pre-test, and on September 10th, 2015
for post-test. Statistically, the researcher analyzes the data by using t-test sample
related.
The result of this research found that the use of English electronic poems
is effective to improve students’ pronunciation. In this research, there is positive
and significant effective of using English electronic poems on students’
pronunciation. The result compared to the value of t-table (7.7184 >2.000). Then,
the computation of t-test shows that the Ha is accepted. The highest score from
the pre-test is 78 and the higheest score from post-test is 89. After the test, the
average scores were found that the mean of the pre-test is was 60.90, and the
mean of post-tets is 71.94. If the value of t-test is higher than t-table, the
alternative hypothesis can be stated that it is effective to use English electronic
poems as media to improve the students’ pronunciation at the eleventh grade
students of senior high school of SMK N 7 Purworejo in the academic year of
2015/2016. Based on the result of this research the researcher suggest the reader
to used electronic poem to help the students improve their pronunciation ability.