The effect of English song in vocabulary masteri

Abstract

Abstract: Vocabulary is the basic language aspects that that function as building the
blocks of a language and It is important develop vocabulary. Still, vocabulary is
too vast to be learned only at classroom and exposing students to English outside
the classroom activities are an effective method to develop vocabulary. English
songs is an authentic source of English that is commonly exposed to students.
Therefore, this study aims to identify the effect of students’ frequency in
listening to English songs on their vocabulary mastery. This study was
implemented using an experimental quantitative research design using an online
questionnaire delivered via Google Form to 40 fourth-semester students of the
English department at University of Islam Malang. The data in this study are
analyzed using paired sample t-test to measure the difference of pre-test and
post-test scores after the treatment. The result concludes that listening to English
songs have a positive effect on students’ vocabulary mastery. The data shows
that the mean score of vocabulary mastery after a week of treatment using
English songs are higher compared to the first vocabulary mastery test before the
treatment. The mean score is increased by 3.812 points with very significant
value of 0.008 which is significant at 0.01 and considered to be very significant.
Therefore, the result confirms the hypothesis alternative that stated listening to
English songs have an impact in students’ vocabulary mastery. It is suggested for
future studies to conduct more study on the effect of other aspects in songs such
as tempo, genre to vocabulary mastery for deeper understanding of the effect of
specific types of songs on vocabulary developmen