Garden” with the theme hobby. In this action, the students could enjoy the activities and they were not so nervous when they were asked to retell the song.
The activities on the third meeting were same as those on the second meeting. So, before the writer played the song, she asked the students to read the
underlined words that were shown in the lyric together. In this case the students made poor pronunciation on the words garden, orchid, bougainvillea, butterflies,
make, and water. And at the end of the lesson the writer also asked the students to read the underlined words of the lyric. The students only made poor pronunciation
on the words orchid and butterflies. Therefore, the writer concluded that the students made improvement on their pronunciation after listening to the song.
4.3 Analysis of the Posttest
The writer gave posttest to the students on Monday, 5 February 2007. It was done by reading the list of the words taken from the songs used in this research. The
procedure of doing the posttest was the same as the procedure on the pretest. Before the posttest was given, the students were asked to review all the words that
had been given by singing and reading the songs together. In this posttest the students would pronounce 75 words. Here is the result of the posttest:
Table 4.2
Students’ Pronunciation Achievement on Posttest
No. Test code
The number of pronunciation
achievement The percentage of
pronunciation achievement
1. 2.
3. 4.
5. 6.
7. 8.
9.
10. 11.
12. 13.
14. 15.
16. 17.
18. 19.
20. 21.
22. 23.
24. 25.
26. 27.
28. 29.
30. S-1
S-2 S-3
S-4 S-5
S-6 S-7
S-8 S-9
S-10 S-11
S-12 S-13
S-14 S-15
S-16 S-17
S-18 S-19
S-20 S-21
S-22 S-23
S-24 S-25
S-26 S-27
S-28 S-29
S-30 71
73 72
75 74
72 71
75 73
72 75
72 73
70 69
69 73
70 73
70 72
73 72
75 71
73 72
71 73
75 94.66
97.33 96.00
100 98.66
96.00 94.66
100 97.33
96.00 100
96.00 97.00
93.33 92.00
92.00 97.33
93.33 97.33
93.33 96.00
97.33 96.00
100 94.66
97.33 96.00
94.66 97.33
100 Total
2169 2861.60
Mean 72.30
95.38
From the table above, the average achievement of the students’ posttest was 95.38 . It shows that there is a rising for the percentage of the students’
achievement. It can be concluded that after the students learned English through listening to English songs, the students made a significant improvement on their
pronunciation. However, there are three students who can pronounce the entire words well and the number of poor pronunciation of each student are decrease.
The poor pronunciation happened on the words knight, know, orchid and note at the most. It was because the students got difficulties in pronouncing
cluster sounds and they did not know that there is difference on the distribution of the same phonetic features in both languages. After taking the program, the
students still have the same problem in giving stress words. However, they made improvement on several words.
4.4 Analysis of the Questionnaires
