The Influence of Listening English Song to Improve Listening Skill in Listening Class

Name : Nurul Hamidah Septianingsih

Class : 4C 

 

 

Title : The Influence of Listening English Song to Improve Listening Skill in Listening Class

Journal : Universal Journal of Educational Research

Volume & Pages : Vol. 1 No. 1

Year : Januari- Juni 2017

Writers :  Tri Listiyaningsih

 Reviewer : Nurul Hamidah Septianingsih

Date : 3 april 2021

Abstract :

The journal entitled " The Influence of Listening English Song to Improve Listening Skill in Listening Class" contains about to describe the influence of listening English song to improve listening skill, especially in the listening class. What influence that embossed by listening English song also will explain in this article .

Abstract or the Introduction presented by the author only uses English (International Language). As a whole, the contents of this abstract or introductory section go directly to the topics discussed in this journal, which in my opinion the readers will find it easier to understand this journal.

Introduction :

In the introduction the author emphasizes focuses on the influence listening English song to improve the listening ability especially in listening class. Listening is very important because it is one of the skill that should mastered in learning English language. If people have mastered listening skill, they will learn English language fluently. Through this research, people who will learn English language, especially people who will improve the listening skill can choose the suitable way to do it and the way is not difficult, so the learner can learn English language especially in listening skill easily. The English song can be the good way to learn listening skill because usually people like to listen to the song and song is media that easy to find.

 Reseacrh method   

This article was written with qualitative approach about the influence of listening English song to improve listening skill. This article written to know the influence of listening English song to improve listening skill and how the English song can be media to improve listening skill. To get comprehensive result, the authors conducted interviews with five informants were considered relevant to determine whether the influence of listening English song to improve the listening skill. Five informants interviewed by the author are student majoring in English education in fifth semester which author assumes already have the ability to listen and have experience in learning English, especially have experience in learning to acquire the ability to listen. To enrich the primary data, the authors also reviewed the literature from various sources such as books, internet, journal, and other resources related to research key issues

Discussion :

 In the discussion section, the author divides the sub-subject into several sections, namely:

1.      Learn Listening by Media

To improve the listening skill, song can be used as a media to help the learner. Listening is the ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communication process. Listening is key to all effective communication, without the ability to listen effectively messages are easily misunderstood-communication breaks down and the sender of the message can easily become frustrated or irritated.

2.      Song as Media to Improve Listening Skill

When learning English language, especially in listening, there are many media to help learner to improve the ability of listening skill such as video, movie, and song. Song as media that can improve listening. Song can be the media to improve the listening skill because it is easy to get song and it can train our ears to listen. From the interview to five people, they said that song can be the media to improve the listening skill.

From the interviews conducted by the author to five informants, they mention that listening to English song can help in improving the ability of listening. When listening to English song, our ears will be used to capture the sound of song, so that when it is in a class listening, someone who is already accustomed to listening English song, they will be easier to understand the text of existing listening. When listening to song especially English song, people who listen will get more vocabularies in English because when listening to English song, someone who listen will get new vocabulary and are not aware that vocabulary will be recorded in the memory and while in class listening, ocabulary can be helpful in understanding the existing text in a conversation or text is in listening. From the interview with author, there are found that with listening English song, someone can improve the listening skill especially in listening class, improve the pronunciation, and improve the vocabulary mastery.

3.      Listening English Song Can Improve the Pronunciation

Listening English song can improve the pronunciation of words in English language. The way to improve the pronunciation is when listen to English song, someone can imitate the pronunciation of the word of English that said in the song. So, people who listen to the English song can learn about pronunciation from the word of song that heard. The other way to learn pronunciation from listening English song is the listener write the word that said in the song, after that the listener search the right pronunciation word that written in dictionary and said the pronunciation like in the dictionary said, it can help to learn the pronunciation

4.      Listening English Song Can Improve Mastery Vocabulary

When people improve the vocabulary through remembering the vocabulary that repeat in the English song, they will comprehend about word that repeat in English song vocabulary. Usually in song, there are word that repeated and it make easy the listener to remembering the word. After remembering the word, the meaning of the word can find by open the dictionary and after that, the listener can get the new vocabulary by remembering the word that repeated in English song

Conclusion :

This article showed that listening English song can improve the listening skill because song can be media to improve listening skill. When someone learn about English language, they should comprehend in listening skill because listening is one of skill that must comprehend in learning English language. Listening to English song can add the vocabularies, improve pronunciation, and can make comprehend in listening skill and there is way to improve listening skill. Vocabularies can be obtained because people will usual to listen the English word and it can add new vocabularies. Improve pronunciation can obtained because when listen English song, the singer usually is native speaker of English and they will pronounce English well. So that people can use the English song to improve the ability.

Advantages :

• The theory and analysis model used are appropriate
• The language used by the writer is easy to understand the intent and purpose of the reader. The analysis is very detailed and easy to understand
• The author describe the explanation clearly 
  

Disadventages : 

• The content of this discussion is only theory, there is no result from the research