| dc.description.abstract | This research was intended to describe the observation on procedure, students’
attitude and students’ vocabulary achievement to tenth grade students of SMAN 1
Muncar in the 2011/2012 academic year. Describing the observation on procedure,
students’ attitude and students’ vocabulary achievement refer to the procedure
applied by the teacher, the student’s motivation and pleasure in vocabulary
comprehension and how far they comprehend and pronounce the words in the form of
song lyric as the material. Further, to indicate their interest on the material can be
shown by their attention to listen the song and doing the exercises in the students’
vocabulary achievement.
Based on the interview and observation, the tenth grade English teacher of
SMAN 1 Muncar has used English pop songs as material in teaching vocabulary.
Using English pop songs are chosen as material to teach vocabulary because it is
easy to attract the students’ ability in recognizing and understanding the meaning of
the words by applying English songs. They will learn to pronounce the words
correctly and understand the meaning of the words, phrases, and sentences of the
songs easily.
Furthermore, the problem of this research was “How is the use of English pop
songs for vocabulary teaching : observation on procedure, students’ attitude and
students’ vocabulary achievement to tenth grade students of SMAN 1 muncar? The
research area was at SMAN 1 Muncar. This school was chosen based on purposive
method. Then, the research respondents were determined based on proportional
random sampling. The research data were obtained by interview, documentation,
observation, vocabulary achievement, and questionnaire. Further, the vocabulary
achievement and questionnaire were analyzed by using percentage formula.
Meanwhile, the interview, documentation, and observation results were explained
descriptively.
Based on the results of the data analysis, the application of English pop songs in
teaching vocabulary to the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Muncar in the 2011/2012
academic year belonged to good category. From the interview, the teacher said that
she used English pop songs as material in teaching vocabulary because most of the
students were interested in learning English by applying songs. From the class
observation, It was known that the students were active and enthusiastic when the
teacher used a song in teaching learning process. From the vocabulary test, it could be
reported that most of the students got high score in vocabulary achievement 1 and 2.
The finding from the questionnaire, showed that most of the students had good
attitudes.
The English teacher got the songs from internet. She selected the songs which
related to the topic. It should have easy vocabularies, simple rhythm, and interest the
students. The procedures of applying English pop songs in teaching vocabulary
applied by the teacher were good. She applied opening activities, main activities and
closing activities correctly.
The research findings above were expected to give some feedback to the
English teacher. She should keep continuing the application of English pop songs in
teaching vocabulary. On the other hand, a song could make variety and fun in
learning English. It is a good for many activities, such as discussion, vocabulary
work, or just singing, so songs could create a relaxed classroom atmosphere and
increase students’ motivation and interest. | en_US |
