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song. So, this medium is not the strange one for them. Song can also bring joy and fun when it comes to teach a language.
“Fire Coming Out of a Monkey’s Head” is used as the treatment instrument for them.
This song is a narrative song. Therefore narrative text is one of the popular genre texts in English.This song has also good moral value; it reflects social critic about human attitude
and behavior. That is why this kind of medium not only teaches them about grammar, vocabulary and etc, but also teaches them about moral lesson to improve their character and
motivation.
1.3 Research Problems
The problems that need to be answered in this discussion: 1. What is the previous profile of students’ performance in learning vocabulary items of
a narrative text? 2. To what extent does “Fire Coming Out of A Monkey’s Head” Song improve the
students’ motivation in learning vocabulary of a narrative text?
1.4 Purpose Of The Study
The objectives of this study are as follows: 1 To find out the previous profile of students’ performance related to vocabulary items
understanding in a narrative text. 2 To find out whether “Fire Coming Out of A Monkey’s Head” song can be useful to
improve students’ motivation in learning vocabulary of a narrative text or not.
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1.5 Significance of the Study
The writer hopes that this final project has some significances:
1.5.1 Practical Significance
The result from this study by using song entitled “Fire Coming Out from Monkey’s Head” can improve, enrich, and enhance students’ vocabulary understanding in English. It is very
good for the students who want to improve their vocabulary. It is very useful for the teachers too, if they want to improve their students motivation in learning vocabulary. Teacher who
don’t know how to improve students’ motivation in learning vocabulary properly, they can use this kind of treatment to treat their students. This medium is very appropriate for those
who have time to improve the vocabulary understanding in fun way. We can find song everywhere. We can hear the song every time and every occasion. So, you can learn English
everyday. No class, no teacher, and no obstruction. We just hear the song, find the difficult words, take note that difficult words in your notebook, and find them in your dictionary.
Today, we can use dictionary everywhere too. So, we can find the difficult word anytime if we want.
1.5.2 Pedagogical Significance
The result from this study can give us the knowledge about the importance of vocabulary understanding and motivation for students in junior high school. Students who don’t know
any vocabulary related to English language will be stuck on the way they learn English.Their motivation will be decreased too. On the other hand, teachers who don’t
understand these kinds of importances get some difficulties in teaching English for their
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students. It is because students in junior high school need to know so many vocabularies for their own good. If teachers don’t enrich students’ vocabulary in junior high school, their
English learning life will be doomed. They will think that learning English is difficult. It also affect to their motivation too. They will not understand with the teacher’s explanation in
senior high or vocational school. Those kinds of effects will be stayed for their entire life. This statement is based on the experience in teaching senior high school and vocational
school students. So, learning vocabulary for children is very important. By using this medium, the learning method in teaching vocabulary will be more colourful. They can learn
English with a lot of happiness and fun. It is because a song can brings joy to people. By using song,the students will be more motivated in learning English because they will think
that learning English is not that difficult to understand.
1.6 Outline of the Report
Here is the outline of this final project: Chapter I is the introduction which gives the readers some explanation about background of
the study, reasons for choosing the topic, statement of the problem, objective of the study, significance of the study, and outline of the report.
Chapter II is review of the related literature. In this chapter, some researches with the same topic are provided. So, the readers can have some point of views before understanding
the whole chapter in this study. The writer will take some theories from books, dictionaries, journals, and websites are taken in order to support this study.
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Chapter III is the method of investigation. The readers can see how the arrangement the research. Those are the research design, subject of the study, type of data, procedures of
collecting the data, and procedure of analyzing the data. Chapter IV is the analysis of this study.
Chapter V presents the conclusion and suggestion dealing with the topic.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Chapter 2 consists of three parts. First is review of the previous studies it presents some projects with the same topic. Second is review of theoretical studies it presents the general
concept of theories used in this final project. The third is theoretical framework it contains of a plan for the next research as the fundamental thing.
2.1 Review of the Previous Studies
Learning vocabulary is like learning the very basic of English language. It is the fundamental thing for students to learn before they learn more about English. If they know
more about vocabulary, they will understand everything which related to this language. Campillo 1995 in her article entitled “Teaching and Learning Vocabulary: an Introduction
for English Students” stated that vocabulary is an essential element in English. She
concluded that in teaching vocabulary, teachers should conduct and prepare different strategies in teaching it. Teacher should also develop different system to speed up and
facilitate the students’ retrieval words. That is why song chosen as the medium in teaching vocabulary to improve their understanding and to develop othertechniques in teaching it.
In learning vocabulary by using song, there are some related researches from international or local community that can be used as a reference in conducting the research.
Those researches were conducted from elementary school to senior high school students. The purpose of the study was almost the same. It was conducted for the improvement in
