THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING SONGS IN TEACHING LISTENING AT THE 11th GRADE OF SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 1 PONOROGO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2016/2017

Keywords: Songs, Listening As an English skill, the ability on listening is very important. Listen to the music and song in the classroom can stimulate very positive associations to the study of a language. They can also make the classroom situation more enjoyable for students and increase the student interest to learn. Songs are chosen here because using song can stimulate the feeling like the students do when they are bored. The research problem of this research can be stated,is using songs in teaching listening at the 11th grade of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Ponorogo in the academic year of 2016/2017 effective?.The study was conducted at the eleventh grade of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Ponorogo. The subjects of this study were the students at SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Ponorogo in two classes thus were as experimental and control groups. The members of the subjects were 28 students in experimental group and 28students in control group. This research used experimental method. The techniques of data collection used by the writer were test and documentation. Based on the statistical data, the writer got a description that the results of test score of the experimental class which was given treatment using songs as media in listening class was 82.14 and control class which did not get treatment using songs as media that was 69.64. Based on the t-test standard of significant 5%, it was found to = 3.02 with tt = 2.01 and T-table at significance level of 1% = 2.68. Consequently based on the testing process of the effective of using songs in teaching listening is effective.In conclusion, there is a real difference in score between students using song as media and not using song as media. In another word, using songs in teaching listening is effective