Using Songs and Movies in Teaching Listening Comprehension by the English Teacher at SMK Batik 1 Surakarta

This research has purpose to (1) To describe the implementation of using songs and movies in teaching listening at SMK Batik 1 Surakarta. (2) To investigate advantages and disadvantages of using songs and movies in teaching listening at SMK Batik 1 Surakarta. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative. The subject in this research was the English teacher at SMK Batik 1 Surakarta who teach listening comprehension using songs and movie. The data were gathered using two techniques: interview and document review. There were three activities to analyze: data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification. The analysis was done to describe the implementation using songs and movie in teaching listening as well as its advantages and disadvantages. The results show that (1) the use of songs and movies is well implemented by the teacher and brings the advantages of the use of songs and movies as media to teach listening in the EFL classroom. The teacher always prepare lesson plan before teaching, there are teaching steps that consists of introduction, core activity, and closing or closure activity, teaching material, and evaluation. (2) The use of songs and movies in teaching listening has advantages and disadvantages. The use of songs is able to motivate and entertain the students in the learning, songs can make the learning more fun, also help the students to easily memorize vocabulary and practice the pronunciation. Meanwhile, the use of songs is sometimes not suitable to all students, difficult to monitor students in listening songs, and the vocabularies provided by the songs can be poor or non-standard. The use of movies bring some advantages to help students experience to the use of language in the real contexts, movies increase the motivation of students in the learning, movies help students increase their attention and focus, movies help students to experience the real language and how the language is used based on the movies. Meanwhile, movie is time consuming and boring due to the long duration, students can only pay attention to the actor or actress in the movie and forget about the task, English movies in the EFL classroom will reduce students’ time to do classroom activities such as writing or having discussion, and it is difficult to monitor students in watching movie independently at home during distance learning. It is recommended to the teacher to apply songs and movies with various teaching techniques to help students in listening comprehension