THE USE OF SONGS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION ABILITY

Ni Luh Gede Windy Lestary

doi:10.25078/yb.v2i2.1024

Ni Luh Gede Windy Lestary

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https://doi.org/10.25078/yb.v2i2.1024

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Abstract

The aim of this journal is to find out the utilization of songs as the technique of teaching listening. Listening is part of four Basic English language skills. It seems like the other skills such as writing, reading, and speaking. These basic skills are divided into receptive skill-listening and reading- and productive skill, speaking and writing. Music and songs are crucial parts of growing and learning. There are many advantages to using songs in the classroom. There are positive and negative views on the utilization of songs in foreign language teaching. Using songs in the learning process especially in the listening lesson it makes the students can improve their listening skill as one of their meaningful strategies to overcome their problem in listening skill. English song can make the students become active in the class, they are interesting, and so they can do a listening task well. However, utilizing songs in the listening process has the challenges, such as; pop songs are not scientific, and inefficient sound systems in schools may cause problems while listening to songs, etc.

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Listening is often considered as English language skills
The results showed that the students' progress in mastering listening skills during the activity can be seen from the pair
English song can make the students become active in the class; they are interested

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Listening is often considered as English language skills. It seems like the most difficult skill. Adnan (2012:2) states that the learning process of listening skills is not balanced with teaching other language skills such as speaking, reading and writing. In this case, to improve the quality of education, all of higher education almost requires students to complete their studies both at the Bachelor degree, Master degree, and Doctoral degree levels required to submit a TOEFL certificate with certain minimum score limits with the policy set by majors and study programs. The three TOEFL test such as; listening comprehension, structure, and written expression and reading comprehension, in part big TOEFL participants say that listening comprehension test is the most difficult test because a lot between students taking TOEFL have to repeat several times until they reach the desired score. Listen to do not have the opportunity to ask the speaker to repeat or clarify that message be delivered

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