The Effectiveness of Using Songs to Improve Students Mastery Present Perfect Tense At The Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 10 Purworejo In The Academic Year of 2015/2016

Abstract

As the language learners, we have to master both spoken and written language. In Indonesia, most of English learner say that writing is the most difficult skill to learn, especially in understanding grammar. The research is conducted to find out the effectiveness of using songs to improve students mastery of present perfect tense at the eighth grade students of Junior High School. This research belongs to experimental research because in conducting the data the researcher used experiment. This research was carried out at SMP N 10 Purworejo in five meetings on May 2015. The population of the study are the eighth grade students of SMP N 10 Purworejo. As the sample, the researcher used 64 students of the total population. The researcher used the purposive sampling technique to make sample. To collect the data, the researcher used test as the instrument. There were pre-test and post-test. To analyse the data, the researcher used t-test formula. The result of data computation indicates that t-value is 4.65. It means that t-value of this study is higher than the t-table. The t-table is 1.999. It means that using English songs to improve students mastery of present perfect tense is effective, therefore Ha is accepted. The researcher hopes that the result can be involved in education field. English teacher should pay attention to the media and improve the media to stimulate the students in the teaching-learning process.