THE EFFECT OF USING JAZZ CHANTS ON THE ELEVENTH GRADE

Abstract

The design used in this research was experimental research. The purpose of conducting this research was to know whether or not there is a significant effect of using Jazz Chants on the eleventh grade students’ pronunciation achievement at SMA Plus Darul Hikmah Jember in the 2016/2017 academic year. The researcher used Jazz Chants because the researcher believed that it could give effect to XI IPS 1 students’ pronunciation achievement during the teaching and learning process. In this research, the researcher used Jazz Chants as media for teaching pronunciation. Jazz Chants is a kind of songs that provide stress, rhythm, and intonation of a natural spoken language. Besides, the researcher believe that Jazz Chants could help the students to pronounce and to memorize vowel sounds (ɪ, iː, uː, ə, æ), consonant sounds (s, ʃ, θ, tʃ, dʒ), and diphthong sounds (eɪ, ɛə, aɪ, ʊə, ɔɪ. aʊ, ɪə, əʊ) in the English words. This research was conducted on 5 August up to 20 august 2016. The result of homogeneity test showed that the respondents were homogenous. That is why, the researcher used lottery to decide the experimental group (XI IPS 1) and the control group (XI IPS 2). The researcher gave the treatment, that was, using Jazz Chants in teaching pronunciation to the experimental group. On the other hand, there was no media used for the control group. The researcher taught those groups in two meetings. After the teaching and learning process, the researcher conducted a try-out test to the other class that was not the experimental and the control. The researcher gave 55 items in the form of isolated words for each student. The result of the tryout test showed that there were 50 items considered as sufficient and 5 as difficult.

Therefore,

the researcher omitted the 5 items and used the 50 items to be the materials for the posttest for both the experimental and the control groups. The result of the posttest showed that the significant value on the t-test was 0.000 and it was less then 0.05. It indicated that the result of t-test analysis was significant. So it proved that there was a significant mean difference between the experimental group and control group. In general, the result of the research showed that the students in the experimental group got better scores in pronunciation achievement than those in the control group. It happened because the students in the experimental group were taught by using Jazz Chants. Thus, it could be concluded that there was a significant effect of using Jazz Chants on the eleventh grade students’ pronunciation achievement at SMA Plus Darul Hikmah Jember in the 2016/2017 academic year.