The Effect of Using Slow Beat English Songs on the Eight Year Students’ Listening Comprehension Achievement at SMPN 3 Jember in The 2011/2012 Academic Year

Abstract

Listening is one of the language skills that should be mastered by the students in Junior High School. Unfortunately, EFL students still have difficulties in listening comprehension. Further, it makes difficult for them to gain better score for other language skills and components. When a teacher gives listening test to the students, they still make some mistakes mostly in catching what the speaker says. It is caused by unfamiliar English words they have. One solution to solve this problem is using interesting media appropriate for students named slow beat English songs. Supporting this solution, Davies

Further, an experimental research on listening skill by using songs had been done by Saputri Based on the interview with the English teacher at SMPN 3 Jember it was known that she rarely gave listening practice to the students. Although the school had already had good facilities as it is an RSBI school, but still she rarely used it. It was because she thought that bring them to multimedia room was wasting time. However, when she teaches listening, she speaks orally to the students. So the English teacher had never used slow beat English songs in teaching listening.