A Correlative Study between Students’ Interest in Listening English Songs and Vocabulary Mastery of the Students of XI IPA 2 at MAN Trenggalek

Keywords: Correlative Study, English Songs, Vocabulary Mastery Learning language means learning its vocabularies. Students often find difficulties in learning language because they lack of vocabulary and they often forget easily new vocabularies after getting meaning from the dictionaries. In teaching vocabulary, the teacher needs to build good atmosphere in the classroom because the students usually easy to get bored. In creating good atmosphere, the teacher can use many kinds of media. One of them is song due to the fact that people consider song more for entertainment than for work/ study. Song also can activate two hemispheres of the brain so when people listen to English songs they do not aware that they are absorbing vocabulary from the songs they listen to. The formulation of the research problem was “is there any correlation between students’ interest in listening English song and their vocabulary mastery. The purpose of the study was to investigate the correlation between students’ interest in listening English songs and their vocabulary mastery. Research method: 1) research design in this study was correlational design with quantitative approach; 2) the population in this study was all of the eleventh year students at MAN Trenggalek; 3) the sample was XI IPA 2 class consisting of 32 students; 4) the research instruments were questionnaire and test; 5) the data analysis was using Spearman-Rank Correlation The result showed that the mean score of the students’ questionnaire was 63,22. This mean score was in the level of 63-81. So, it can be said that the students’ interest in listening English songs is good. The mean score of students’ vocabulary test was 63,5 this mean score was in the level of 60-79. So, it can be said that most students have very good score in vocabulary mastery. The correlation obtained from the formula of Spearman is 0,89. That data analysis showed that “r” value was higher than “r” table of Spearman Correlation, either in 5% or 1% significance. This means that H0 which stated “there is no correlation between students’ interest in listening English song and their vocabulary mastery in the XI IPA 2 of MAN Trenggalek in academic 2011/2012” is rejected. After the result was consulted to the interpretation table of significant level, the score lies in the interval 0,70-0,90 it means that the correlation of this research is high