Identification of the problem Limitation of the problem Formulation of the problem Objective of the problem

SMPN 3 Bandar lampung. The researcher assumes that a high frequency of listening to English songs can make students have a good skill and help them develop their vocabulary. Thus, the writer wants to know the correlation between the frequency listening to English song and students’ vocabulary achievement.

1.2 Identification of the problem

In reference to background of the problem, the following problems can be found: 1. The students hate doing listening comprehension in teaching listening process. 2. The students regard English as a difficult subject because they have low motivation that makes the students get difficulties in learning English. 3. The learning process is not interesting for the students and it makes the students bored because they learn English from textbooks and the learning process will be ordinary. 4. The students lack of vocabulary because they usually study the theory but they do not keep practicing. 5. The school lack listening facilities that makes the teacher prefer teaching reading, writing, or speaking. 6. The students prefer listening to Indonesian songs to English songs therefore the lyrics are not familiar to them.

1.3 Limitation of the problem

In line with the identification of the problem above, the current study is focused on the students’ lack of vocabularies who prefer listening Indonesian song to English song. As the solution, this research will investigate the correlation between the frequency of listening English song and students’ vocabulary achievement. It is assumed that the high frequency of listen to English songs makes the students have a better skill and help them develop their vocabulary better way.

1.4 Formulation of the problem

The explanation above leads the researcher to formulated the problem as follow: “Is there any correlation between the students’ frequency of listening to English song and their vocabulary achievement at the second year of SMPN 3 Bandar Lampung? ”

1.5 Objective of the problem

In relation to the formulating of the problem above, the objective of the problem is to find out the relationship between the students ’ frequency of listen to English song and their vocabulary achievement at the second year of SMPN 3 Bandar Lampung.

1.6 Uses of the research