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way how to pronounce it. After that, teacher asks the students to read the text aloud. The next step is lets the students listen to the songs three times.
The first time students purely listen, the second time sing with the tape, and the last time sing without tape. The last step is asks the students to do
exercises”
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2. The steps suggested by Cakir: “First, students listen to the songs from cassette. Second, teacher repeats
the song in spoken form. Teacher and students repeat the song together. Once again, students listen to the song from cassette. And the last is the
repetition of the song in the instrumental version”. Based on the references above, the writer supposes the following activities
to be applied in the classroom. First, teacher hands out the lyrics of the songs or writes them on the board. Second, teacher explains the meaning of the songs and
lets the students know the meaning of each word. Third, teacher plays or sings the songs many times. Fourth, teacher lets the students know how to pronounce the
words of the songs correctly. Fifth, teacher gives the students an example of the way how to sing the songs.
Sixth, teacher asks the students to repeat the songs using right pronunciation after himher. After mastering the intonation of the song, teacher
asks the students to sing the song together. After that teacher asks the students to sing the song by themselves. The last is teacher asks the students to exercises
related to the songs.
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E. Hypothesis
This research is to know whether teaching pronunciation using music songs better than teaching pronunciation without using music songs. And to find
the answer of the problem, the writer should propose alternative Hypothesis Ha and Null Hypothesis Ho as bellow:
1. Alternative Hypothesis H
a
= “There is a significant difference in students’ score of pronunciation before and after using music songs”.
2. Null Hypothesis H
o
= “There is no significant difference in students’ score of pronunciation between before and after without using music
songs”.
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CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Place and Time
The writer chooses SMK Cyber Media Duren Tiga South Jakarta as the object of the research, considering it is not far and only about 15 minutes to go
there from the writer’s home. Some teachers in the school have already known the writer well. The research was held to know if the students have problems in
pronouncing English. It was held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays morning as scheduled on 05
th
of October up to 22
th
November 2010
B. Population and Sampling
The writer did the experiment at the first year of Vocational School SMK Cyber Media, Jakarta involving the process of teaching Improving Students
Pronunciation by Using English Song. The population of the research is the first year of Vocational School SMK Jakarta. There are two classes consisting of X
TKJ.1, X TKJ.2, so there are all 82 students. The sample of research of two classes that are X TKJ.1 which consists of
42 students as controlled class and X TKJ.2 which consists of 40 students as experiment class. It will be taken only 42 students from each class as sample by
random sampling.
The writer chooses them as the subject of the study because of the consideration that they have been taught English as the local content subject. Besides,
based on the interview that we had done before, most of them were not able to pronounce English well.
C. The Techniques of Collecting Data
The test for collecting data is important thing in this research that can be determined the result of the research such as:
1. Choose Songs Test
The writers selected four interesting songs. The songs that were used had themes that were related to children world. The songs were Bicycle Race.
The first song tells about the race of bicycle. The second song is a song about profession. The profession here is an Actor. It tells about anything
related to the profession. The third song also tells about feel emotion, that is a Love of My Life. It tells about Feeling. The last song is Hotel
California. It tells about a place. The four songs make the students easier in memorizing the way of pronouncing English words.
2. Pre-test
The pre-test for the students are carried out to get their score. In part A
the students have to listens some songs with music and write missing words.
In part B the students were taught to sing correctly the texts song without
music by giving them the examples of how to read the words in the form of reading by the writer.
