Songs Language Teaching Media

b. Songs

The use of songs as the media in introducing new vocabularies will not make the students feel bored and feel nervous, “singing songs in the classroom can reduce their fear and tension in learning English” Regino and Henry: 1998: 8. Because songs can reduce the presence of boredom, those can help teachers in teaching vocabulary to the pupils. Pupils will learn more effectively when they feel relax and happy. The songs are not the main media to teach vocabulary. It is only for the reinforcement to the teaching process which uses pictures. The aim of using songs as the reinforcement is to prevent students from boredom of the drilling process using pictures. Besides using songs as reinforcement media, songs can also help teachers to drill vocabularies because the songs, used in this research, were intended to teach. Therefore, the teacher will have more time to drill the vocabularies besides using pictures the teacher can also use songs to drill the vocabularies. Foster and Headly 1959:230 state that singing can express the children’s feeling, mood, and thought. Konstantinovic also states in English teaching Forum 1973:25-26 as follows: By learning to sing songs in English, children do not only improve their English and enrich their vocabulary but also get to know a bit about the culture and the spirit of the people whose language they are studying which makes them enjoy learning the song and helps them come more quickly to the real aim of learning a language that is, to use it. For them cannot use their classroom English at home, in the street, on a picnic, but they can sing everywhere and they do it eagerly and enthusiastically. From the statements above, it is already known that songs in learning English for children are important because songs make the pupils enjoy in learning vocabularies. Moreover, by singing songs the pupils whether it is consciously or unconsciously are learning and practicing the vocabulary. By singing songs, children will feel happy and will make the learning process proceed well.

4. Kindergarten Children