The Use Of English Love Songs To Increase Students’ Speaking Ability At First Semester Of English Education Department

Abstract

English is considered as a foreign language in Indonesia. Because of this condition, not many people use English in their daily life as their language for communication. In University, English as a foreign language has become a compulsory subject for all study programs. The students at the university are expected to be able to communicate using English. Based on the previous study conducted by the lecturer at English Education Department, there are many students have difficulties in learning English, especially in pronunciation, vocabulary and confidence. This is shown by the students’ achievement who are still under of the standard minimal score. Therefore, this research proposes English song technique which the final goal is increasing speaking ability in First Semester of English Education Department. This research uses classroom action research to solve the students’ problems related to their speaking ability especially on their pronunciation, vocabulary, and confidence. The researcher uses some instruments to collect the data, there are questionnaire, observation checklist, interview, field note, test, and documentation. This research is done in two cycles. From the result obtained, it can be concluded that English Song technique can help students for increasing their speaking ability especially on their pronunciation, vocabulary and confidence. In the post-test cycle I, the average post-test cycle I is 62.19, higher than the pre-test. There are 22.85% (8 students) who get the criteria for a success score of 75 above. In the post-test cycle II, the average post-test cycle II is 80.95. The result of questionnaire also shows that the students are more interested in learning English by having English song.