Improving the Grade IX-C Students' Participation and Their Listening Comprehension Achievement by Using English Pop Songs at SMP Negeri 2 Tanggul

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to solve the problems dealing with the students' participation and listening comprehension achievement by using English pop songs. The research design was Classroom Action Research. The area and subjects of this research were chosen purposively by using purposive method. The data were collected from listening test, observation, interview and documentation. The results of this research showed that there were improvement of students' participation and their listening comprehension achievement in Cycle 1 to Cycle 2. In Cycle 1, there were 60.56% of the students who actively participated during the teaching learning process. Meanwhile, there were 51.42% of the students who achieved the target score. Beside, in Cycle 2, there were 79.68% of the students who actively involved during the teaching learning process, while 75.75% of the students achieved the target score. It proved that the use of English pop songs as the instructional material could improve the students' participation and their listening comprehension achievement.