THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ENGLISH SONG AS MEDIA IN IMPROVING PRONUNCIATION MASTERY AT THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS’ OF SMP PMB 1 PITURUH IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013 / 2014

Abstract

The aim of the thesis is to find whether the English song as media is effective or not for improving English pronunciation mastery for the eight grade students of SMP PMB 1 Pituruh in the academic year 2013/2014. The researcher applies quantitative method to discuss and find out the problem appearing in this study. This study can be categorized as preexperimental research. The population of this research is the eight grade students of SMP PMB 1 Pituruh and the researcher took 34 students as the sample. Sampling which researcher used was purposive sampling. The independent variable of this research (X) is improving pronunciation mastery using English song and the second variable of this research (Y) is called dependent variable is the students’ pronunciation mastery. In getting the data, the researcher used pronunciation test as an instrument (pre test and post test). The researcher analyzed the data by using descriptive statistic analysis (mean, median, mode, SD, variance, and the highest and lowest score) and inferential analysis (normality test, test of homogeneity and t-test as hypothesis). The result of the researcher shows English song as media is effective to improve students pronunciation mastery. The increase of the mean score of post test is higher than mean score of pre test (80.88>57.21). The improvement can be seen by the result of t-test that is 17.67. Then, the researcher consulted the critical value on the t-table using 5% (0.05) alpha level significance and the degree of freedom is 1.671. The computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table is 17.67>1.671. It means that English song as media is effective to improve pronunciation mastery at the eight grade students of SMP PMB 1 Pituruh in the academic year 2013/2014.