THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING MISSING LYRIC IN TEACHING LISTENING ABILITY OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMA
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
The chapter presents seven topics related to the
study. Those are background of the study, formulation of research problem, objective
of the research, scope and limitation of the study, formulation of hypothesis,
significance of the study and definition of key terms.
A. Background of the Study
Learning
a language is not something new for people who have been interested in it since a
long time ago.Language is an instrument to address and understand idea, reason,
feeling, either in orally or written. Dealing with human resources development,
language is a unique attribute which enables us to learn and think creatively.
In this case, English is an international language that is used by almost all
people in many aspect of life, such as in science, knowledge, education,
technology and communication. The functions of learning English in the school are;
first, bystudying English students are expected to have a means to develop theirknowledge
of science, technology and culture. The second is students areexpected to be
able to support the development of tourism.
English
is a language that is used around the world. It has been a global language, as what
Crystal (2003:3) states that a language achieves a genuinely global status when
it develops a special role that is recognized in every country. Almost all of the
countries in the world use English as the second or become foreign language.
English is also classified as an international language and used in many aspect
of life. According to Sharifian (2009:1) for better or worse, by choice or force,
English has ‘traveled’ to many parts of the world and has been used to serve various
purposes. The purposes include in scope of education, science development, technology,
culture, relationship development and even
English
is a top requirement to seek jobs. Therefore, mastering English is considered very
important, especially to spread and access knowledge and information. In education
context, people learn English for understanding literature, communication, getting
job, etc. Automatically, mastering English needed. English teaching learning is
expected to be able to develop student’s competence in international
communication and to get knowledge and global information. English also gives
impact in Indonesian’s education. In Indonesia, English is taught as a foreign
language in almost all levels of school, both as local current subjects for
elementary school students and as compulsory subject for junior and senior high
school students. It shows that learning English is important.
Nowadays,
English is needed for everyone especially students because information, scientific
books and other references are written in English. As an international
language, English competence becomes a necessity in that it will be the basic
for the higher level and prepare students to face the globalization era. It is
expected that by mastering English students can grow and develop to become
clever, able and have good personality.
English
has four skills. They are listening, reading, writing and speaking. All of them
very important. Listening is the first skill that must be master. Listening skill
is one of the basic learning language and acquiring it is very important in language
learning. Listening skills is an activity that we listens the sound by our
ears.
Listening
is an interaction between speaker and listener. Listening is skill that is
difficult to be master, because it needs more attention and concentration to
comprehend the sound. WakhidNashruddin mentions that Listening is difficult skill
in second language learning. The difficulty is caused by many factors varying
from the difference of sound between the second language learners first
language and the second language he or she is learning, his or her lack of
vocabulary, his or her grammatical unawareness, to pragmatic differences
between the two languages (2013:3).
We
should use varieties strategies in teaching listening. One of the strategies that
can be used by teacher is using media to support the teaching learning process.
There are some teaching media available now, so here the researcher uses song especially
missing lyrics to improve students’ listening ability.Using English song in teaching
and learning of English has become popular, since song can give many benefits due
to several reasons. Song is powerful stimulus for students’ engagement
precisely because it speaks directly to our emotions while still allowing to us
to use our brains to analyze it.To make students motivate and enjoyable to study
listening, the teacher should be creatively in delivering material.
Listening
using English songs, is more interesting from student’s activities. As we know that
song is always follow us everywhere and almost of students like sing a song included
English song. English songs are a great language package that bundles culture,
vocabulary, listening and grammar. Songs can also provide a relaxed lesson on a
boring day. By becoming a better listener, the students will improve their
productivity, as well as their ability to influence, persuade and negotiate. What’s
more, they will avoid conflict and misunderstanding.
The
researcher chooses listening as the object of research because the researcher itself
is very poor in listening skill and listening is not easy because take so much time.
Wakhid Nashruddin said that “Listening tested in many language proficiency
tests, such as in TOEFL, IELTS, TOEIC, and also National Final Examination (UNAS),
and usually comes at the beginning of the test” (2013:3).
Based
on the statement above,there are many reasons why the writer chooses listening
skill in this study. The listening skill is essential to improve the
language.Learning listening has been mastered by the students in order to be
able to communicate in English most students in Junior High School still have
difficulties in listening skill,so that they cannot convey their ideas from
what they listen clearly because of their limited skill of listening. Songs can
be wonderful media for natural language, and in this case the researcher using missing
lyric technique. Songs will make the students relax and fun. By using songs, learning
English listening will be interesting and enjoyable. The writer makes a study
entitled “The Effectiveness of using missing lyric in teaching listening
ability of the tenth grade students at SMA”.
B. Formulation of Research Problem
The
main problems occur in this study a follow:
1. How are students listening ability before being treated by using English songs?
2. How are students listening ability after being treated by using English songs?
3. Is using missing lyric effective in teaching listening ability of the tenth grade students?
C. Objective of the research
Based
on the research questions above, the research proposes the objectives of the
research as follow:
1. To find out the listening ability of the tenth grade students of SMA before being taught by using missing lyric.
2. To find out the listening ability of the tenth grade students of SMA after being taught by using missing lyric.
3. To find outis teaching listening using missing lyric effective or not and to find out whether there is any significant difference ofthe listeningability of the tenth grade students of SMA before and after being taught by using missing lyric.
D. Scope and Limitation of the Study
The
scope of the study will be focus on the senior high school by giving missing lyric
technique and it will be concentrate in the effect of teaching by using missing
lyric technique to build students listening ability. The researcher limits the study
on the teaching English that concern on listening by using missing lyric technique
at the tenth grade students of SMA.
E. Formulation of Hypothesis.
Based
on the statement on the problems, there are two kinds of hypothesis. So the
research was using Null Hypothesis (Ho) and Alternative Hypothesis (Ha).
1. Null Hypothesis (Ho)
There is no significant difference in their listening achievement
between the students taught using missing lyric and those taught using traditional
technique of the tenth grade students at SMA in the academic years 2013/2014.
2. Alternative Hypothesis (Ha)
There
is significant difference in their listening achievement between the students
taught using missing lyric and those taught by using traditional technique of the
tenth grade students at SMA in the academic year 2013/2014.
F. Significance of the study
The
study has some significance in three aspects. They are:
1. For the students
The result of this research is expected to produce a good
result in teaching and learning process especially for listening ability when it
is well applied. Furthermore, it is expected to assist them to find meaningful
strategy to solve their problem in listening skill.
2. For the teacher
The research gives contribution in teaching learning
process. By reviewing this study, teachers will have reference of the media
that can be used in teaching listening. This result of the study can be used to
improve their knowledge in the use of various techniques or strategy in
teaching listening.
3. For the Research
This research can give a concept of media can be used in teaching
listening, especially in the term of using missing lyric. This result of the
study will facilitate then as reference in conducting further study about
teaching listening.
G. Definition of Key the Terms
From
the research problems stated earlier, this study focused on the use of missing lyric
in teaching listening in the tenth grade students of SMA. To avoid misinterpretation
and to limit the unnecessary points, the writer would like to give explanation
of the topic as follow:
Listening
skill
Listening is one of the fundamental language skills, and crucial
in the development of the second language competence. Listening skill is activity
to identify and understand what others are saying.Listening skill can be meant as
ability to pay attention or to hear something.
Song
Song is a piece of music with words that is sung. Songs
had heard by the people in the world since they are born until died.Songs can
be used to show our emotions, it makes us happy, helps us ease the pain in the
best way. Besides it, songs can be utilized in foreign language teaching for
many purposes.
Lyric
Lyrics are set of words that make up a song. Lyric can be
studied from an academic perspective. Lyric can also be analyzed with respect
to sense of unity it has with its supporting music. Lyric is simple word of
song. The lyric or song texts do not only as a complement of the song, but also
as an important part of the music elements which determine the theme, character
and mission of the song
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