THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING SONG TO INCREASE THE STUDENTS’ CONCENTRATION LEVEL IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION TO THE TENTH-GRADE STUDENTS OF SMK N 3 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014

Abstract

English is an international language which is really important to learn. The importance of learning English is the learners can communicate with other people who come from another country. Listening skill is one of skills which are developed in Indonesian institution. Concentration is the one of factors which influences the achievement of learning comprehension process. The objective of this research is to find out whether there is any effectiveness in using song to increase the students’ concentration level in listening comprehension to the tenth-grade students of SMK N 3 Purworejo in the academic year of 2013/2014. In this research the researcher took 60 students as the sample. As the experimental group, the researcher used 30 students of X-BB3 class. Meanwhile, as the control group, the researcher took 30 students of X-KR class. Then, the researcher gave pre-test and post-test to both classes. After analyzing the data, the researcher concludes that using song to increase the students’ concentration level in listening comprehension is effective. As the fact, the result of t-value is 3.218 based on the 0.05 significant level, the value of t-table is 1.980. The result of computation shows that t-value is higher than ttable, that is 4.96>1.671. So, it can be stated that the hypothesis “using song to increase the students’ concentration level in listening comprehension to the tenthgrade students of SMK N 3 Purworejo in the academic year of 2013/2014 is effective” is accepted.