Title: The Effect Of Using Songs On The Senior High School Students' Listening Comprehension Achievement
Authors: Farhan Dimas Amrullah, Zakiyah Tasnim, Bambang Arya Wija Putra
Volume: 9
Issue: 8
Pages: 48-51
Publication Date: 2025/08/28
Abstract:
This research aimed to know whether there was a significant effect of using songs on senior high school students' listening comprehension achievement. Listening is a fundamental language skill that often poses difficulties due to the limited engaging instructional media. Songs are widely recognized for their linguistic, affective, and motivational benefits, yet their application in classrooms still needs to be investigated. Quasi-experimental research with Post-test only design by involving 70 eleventh-grade students of a senior high school in North Jember was applied. The participants were from two groups (experimental and control groups) taken randomly from six homogeneous groups decided based on the homogeneity test results. The experimental group received listening instruction using popular and the researcher-composed songs, and the control group was taught listening comprehension by using conventional audio materials. The data needed were collected through a post-test and analyzed using an independent sample t-test with SPSS. The results indicated that there was no significant effect of using songs on the students' listening comprehension achievement. Some factors such as limited treatment duration, inadequate listening facilities, and students' unfamiliarity with some songs could affect the outcomes. Therefore, future researchers in this topic are suggested to consider more on the treatment duration time, facility used, and the familiarity of the song.