The influence of students’ listening habit of English songs toward students’ reading comprehension ability of narrative text

The previous studies investigated the effect of repeated listening to English songs on vocabulary learning and learning gains. Other studies investigated the impact of the listening habit of English songs on listening comprehension, speaking, and writing ability. From the results, it can be concluded that learning does occur from listening to English songs. However, the effect of the listening habit of English songs on reading ability was not provided. This research discusses the influence of students’ listening habits of English songs toward students’ reading comprehension ability of Narrative text at the tenth grade of MA Darul Ulum Semarang in the academic year of 2019/2020. This research was designed in a quantitative approach with the correlation of product-moment and simple linear regression. The writer used two research instruments: a questionnaire to measure the listening habit and test to measure reading comprehension ability. All members of the population were used as a sample. The result of the students’ listening habit of English songs is in the “medium” category, with the mean score is 64.88. The students’ reading comprehension ability of Narrative text is also in the “medium” category with the mean is 39.24. The test of significant regression showed that the value of tcount is higher than the ttable (6.013 > 2.0096). It means that H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted. So, there is a positive and significant influence of the students’ listening habit of English songs toward the students’ reading comprehension ability. By listening to English songs, the students got more knowledge about English, such as vocabulary, and it can be a foundation for students in helping them to create meanings and become easier to understand the text they read