The Effectiveness of Using Songs to Teach Telling Time (An Experimental Research with the 3rd Grade Students of SDIT An-Nawawiyah Rembang in the Academic Year of 2011/2012

The main objective of this study is to find out the effectiveness of song in teaching telling time. This is an experimental study. The data were obtained by giving test to the experimental class and control class after giving a different learning to both classes. The teacher gave three times teaching to both classes. The numbers of the subjects were 24 students in each class. They were III B were as experimental class (the students who are taught using song), III A were as control class (the students who are not taught using song). The instruments used to collect the data were observation, test, and documentation. The documentation was used to get the data of students’ name list that become respondents, syllabus and lesson plan. Test was used to know students’ competence before and after the experiment run. There were two kinds of test; pre-test and post test. After the data were collected, the researcher analyzed them. The first data analyses were the normality test and homogeneity test. They were used to know that two groups had normal distribution and same variant. Another analysis data was from the ending of control class and experimental class. It was used to prove the truth of hypothesis that had been made. The result of the research is the mean of performance score of experimental class (the students taught using song) is 71.58, and the mean of performance score of control class (the students taught using non- song) are 65.625. There is a difference in performance score between students taught using song and those taught using non- song. It is shown by the mean of experimental class, which is higher than control class (71.58 > 65.625). On the other hand, the test of hypothesis using t-test formula shows the value of the t-test, which is higher than the value of the t-table. The value of t-test is 3.57953, while the value of t-table on = 5% is 2.01 (3.57953 > 2.01). The hypothesis is accepted. Based on the result of this study, it is expected to inform English teachers in teaching telling time. So, it can facilitate students to master it