Implementing Song in Teaching Listening Comprehension at Muhammadiyah University of Jakarta

The paper attempts to investigate the use of song in teaching listening comprehension for students’ English department at Muhammadiyah University of Jakarta. The researcher used a descriptive qualitative method. The subject of the study was students in the sixth semester of Muhammadiyah University of Jakarta. The instrument and the procedure of data collection were used observation and questionnaire. The activities of the implementation involved the use of song in teaching listening. The paper answers the following questions: 1. What are the impacts of using song-learning English? 2. How frequently listening song to improve the listening skills for student? 3. What are the common difficulties that face the respondents in the questionnaire implemented in this paper in terms of listening comprehension? Thus, the paper aims to find the factors influencing English listening comprehension and the strategies to be taken that might improve students’ listening comprehension. The paper indicates that the current problems face students in developing listening comprehension skills are speed speech, limited knowledge of vocabulary, and limited knowledge of the song lyric. Further studies could be conducted to gauge the issue of listening comprehension using other kinds of multimedia such as TV or Movies in improving students listening skills. Keywords: Song, Listening Comprehension, Listening activities, How to cite: Izzah, L. (2014). Implementing Song in Teaching Listening Comprehension at Muhammadiyah University of Jakarta. MORPH, 1(2), 1–13. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.121617