THE EFFECT OF USING ISLAMIC SONGS ON THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT MTs NEGERI ARJASA JEMBER IN THE 2012/2013 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

Listening as one of the language skills is a critical element in the language performance for second language learners when they are communicating either at school or in the community. To reach a good development in teaching listening, an English teacher should create various teaching materials to motivate students learning in order to help them to reach the objective of listening class. One of the listening materials that can be used is Islamic songs. Songs that were used as materials in listening comprehension classes were only those that have Islamic English lyric, entitled “My Little Girl” that has characteristic of how to thankful to God of having a child, and “You are Number One for me” that has characteristic of how to respect to mother. Those songs are sung by Zain. The topic of the songs’ and the test materials of this research were taken from the themes stated in the 2006 School-Based Curriculum (KTSP) of Junior High school. The research was conducted to the seventh grade students at MTs Negeri Arjasa in the 2012/2013 academic year. The design of this research was quasi experimental research with Nonequivalent-Groups Pretest-Posttest. In this research there were two kinds of data, namely the primary data and the supporting data. The primary data were collected from the scores of the achievement test on the students listening comprehension while the supporting data were collected by using interview and documentation. After the main data in the form of listening test scores were collected, the data were analyzed statistically by using Independent sample t- test in SPSS version 20. It was used to analyze the mean difference between the two groups. This research was intended to know whether or not there was a significant effect of using Islamic songs on the students’ listening comprehension achievement. The findings showed that Islamic songs do not significantly affected the students’ listening comprehension achievement. The significant value (2 tailed) was 0.397, and it was higher than probability 0.05. It means that the research ho cannot be rejected.