THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING ENGLISH SONG TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION MASTERY FOR TENTH-GRADE STUDENTS OF SMK TAMAN KARYA PERTAMBANGAN KEBUMEN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

Abstract

Song can have a great impact on people's feeling and emotions. When someone listening to the song they like, he or she will imitate the lyric which they listen to. The aim of this research is to find out whether there is an effectiveness of the use of English song on the students’ pronunciation mastery or not to the tenth grade students of SMK Taman Karya Madya Pertambangan Kebumen in the academic year 2013/2014. This research is classified as an experimental research. Moreover, this research is conducted by using quantitative technique in processing the data and getting the result. Therefore, the type of this research is experimental quantitative research. In this research,the population is 400 the researcher took 76 students which are divided into control (X Ototronik 1, 38 students) and experimental group (X Ototronik 2, 38 students) at the tenth grade of SMK Taman Karya Madya Pertambangan Kebumen in the academic year of 2013/2014 as the sample. The researcher conducted pre-test, treatment and post-test. The researcher used English song as a media to teach pronunciation. Statistically, the researcher analyzed the data by using t-test. The result of this research shows that English song is effective to improve students’ pronunciation mastery for the tenth grade students of SMK Taman Karya Pertambangan Kebumen in the academic year of 2013/2014, since it was found that the result of t-value is 5.26, based on 0.05 significance level , and the value of t-table is 1.99. Therefore, the computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table that is 5.261>1.99.