Problems of the Research Objectives of the Research Significance of the Research

57.5 to 77.8 after implementing the two cycles. Another research was conducted by Wening 2014 through a Classroom Action Research at SMPN 1 Jember applying songs to improve the students’ tense achievement on the seventh grade, reported that the use of songs could improve the students’ tense achievement as well as the students’ active participation after doing it in two cycles. The result of this research showed that students’ tense achievement improved from 51.35 to 89.18. Besides, the students’ active participation increased from 75.67 to 81.08 after implementing the second cycle. The researcher needed those two previous researches not only to know whether the use of songs were appropriate media or no to teach English in class, but also whether the songs could improve the students active participation in class or not. Those two previous researches stated the similar research significance for the future researchers. They hoped that the result of their researcher could give information for some future researchers, so they can conduct further researches by using similar research design and media but with different language components or skills. So that, the researcher interested in conducting a research with similar research design that was CAR and songs as similar media in different ways. The researcher used different research subjects and area of the research. Besides, the researcher tried to improve the other language component that was vocabulary. It based on the research subjects’ problem in learning and mastering English. Based on the research background above, a research entitled “Improving the Seventh Grade Students’ Vocabulary Achievement through English Songs at SMP Negeri 11 Jember in the 20142015 Academic Year” was conducted by using Classroom Action Research.

1.2 Problems of the Research

Based on the background of the study above, the research problems are formulated as follows. 1. Can the use of English songs improve the seventh grade students’ vocabulary achievement at SMP Negeri 11 Jember in the 20142015 academic year? 2. Can the use of English songs improve the seventh grade students’ participation in the teaching and learning process of vocabulary achievement at SMP Negeri 11 Jember in the 20142015 academic year?

1.3 Objectives of the Research

Based on the background and the problems of the research, the objectives of the research are formulated as follows: 1. to improve the seventh grade students’ vocabulary achievement at SMP Negeri 11 Jember in the 20142015 academic year. 2. to improve the seventh grade students’ participation in the teaching and learning process of vocabulary achievement at SMP Negeri 11 Jember in the 20142015 academic year.

1.4 Significance of the Research

The results of this research are expected to give useful contribution to the following people. 1.4.1 The English Teacher Hopefully, the results of this research can be useful for the English teacher as information about how to use English songs in teaching vocabulary. The teacher can use English songs as alternative media to help the students in improving their vocabulary achievement, so that the teaching learning process can be more interesting and the students’ participation can be more active. 1.4.2 The Students Hopefully, the results of this research can improve the students’ vocabulary achievement and active participation. This research can give experiences to them in learning new vocabularies by using English songs as a fun way in class, so they will not feel bored and stressed while they are learning English vocabulary. 1.4.3 The Future Researchers Hopefully, the results of this research can give information as a reference for future researchers in conducting a further research by using similar research design and media but with different language components or skills, such as: improving the students’ speaking skill through English songs. 8

CHAPTER 2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE