The correlation between listening English song habit and students' vocabulary recognition at English Teacher Education Department of UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya

Vocabulary is one of the receptive words which have to be learned by students of English Department to get easy in their teaching learning process. In this university, there are many researchers which have been done to examine the teaching techniques in vocabulary but there is limited research done on the role of vocabulary recognition in listening to the English song. The subject of this study is 72 students at the 3rd semester of English Teacher Education Department in Sunan Ampel Surabaya academic year 2017-2018. The instrument used in this study are Aural Vocabulary Knowledge Test developed by Joshua Matthews and a questionnaire to find out the students habit in listening to the English song. The data is analyzed using SPSS version 16.0. The statistical used in this quantitative research is Pearson Product Moment Correlation to find the correlation between the independent variable (Listening English Song Habit) and the dependent variable (Vocabulary Recognition). The findings of this study show that there was a significant correlation between listening English song habit and students' vocabulary recognition. The standard level of significant (0.05) the Pearson Correlation of listening English song habit and students' vocabulary recognition = 0.000 (Sig = 0.425). This indicates that the habit in listening to the English song can help students’ recognize a lot of vocabulary. Hence in order to get much of new English words, they should learn from listening to the English song frequently