THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING SONG TO INCREASE STUDENTS’ LISTENING SKILL OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMK N I

This thesis is entitled “The effectiveness of using song to increase students’ listening skill of the second year students of SMK N I Ambal Kebumen in the academic year 2012 / 2013”. It is aimed to find how effective of song in increasing the students’ listening skill. The population of this research is the second year students ’ of SMK N I Ambal Kebumen in the academic year 2012/2013. The researcher took two classes for 66 students as the sample. In addition, the researcher collected the data by using an achievements test and observation. The result of the thesis shows that the mean of control group for the pre-test is 62.85 from the total score 2074 and the post –test is 71.76 from the total score 2368, while the mean of experimental group for the pre-test is 66.09 from the total score 2181 and the post-test is 83.39 from the total score 2752. The result of analysis indicates that in teaching listening using song is effective to make students increase their listening skill. It proved by the computation that value of t-test is 7.13. this value shows that there is significant difference because the t-obtained is higher than t-table, 7.13>2.042. it means Ho is rejected whereas Ha is accepted