Teaching Vocabulary by Using Songs

done by Yoyoh, she conducted her research in 2006 and he also focus in increasing students’ vocabulary. She conducted the research in order to know the students’ mastery of vocabulary. That research almost similar to the writer’s research. But there are the differences; the writer only used test to collect the data, but Miss Yoyoh used three techniques to collecting the data they are observation, interview, and test. 27 She took the sample and made the students into experiment and controlled class. The research was proven that using song is effective to mastery of vocabulary at the second grade of senior high school. The researcher above used same media with the writer. She used song in order to improve students’ vocabulary. Another difference between Yoyoh’s research with the writer research are the subject of the study. She conducted the research in the second grade of senior high school while the writer conducted her research in the second grade of junior high school. The research which also discussed about vocabulary had been conducted by Ahmad Subhan entitled “The Effectiveness of Teaching Verbs by Using Cooperative Learning”A Quasi Experimental Study at the second year Students of SMPN 169 Jakarta. He conducted his research in 2014 and he focused on the verbs. He conducted his research in order to know the students’ mastery of verbs. The research was proven that cooperative learning is effective to mastery of verbs at the second year students of junior high school. The data shown that t-test t- table or 3,69 higher than 1,99. 28 In this term the writer has the same dependent variable but the researcher above only focused on the verb while the writer on the vocabulary. The writer used song as the media while Mr. Subhan used Jigsaw as the technique that was used in cooperative learning classroom. From all the experiments that ever had, no one of them used Song as media to mastery vocabulary in second grade of junior high school. Thus, the 27 Yoyoh, Using English Song in the Improvement of Students Vocabulary, Jakarta, 2006, p.23 28 Ahmad Subhan, The Effectiveness of Teaching Verbs by Using Cooperative Learning, Jakarta, 2014, p.55 writer chose to conduct the new research with the title “The Effectiveness of Songs to Increase Students’ Vocabulary”.

E. The Research Hypothesis

The purpose of this study is to find out the empirical evidence for the students in learning vocabulary using songs is effective or not in building students’ mastery of vocabulary. To get the answer of the hypothesis above, the writer proposes alternative hypothesis H a and the null hypothesis H o as follows: 1. Null Hypothesis Ho There is no significant difference of students’ achievement between those who were taught by using songs in teaching vocabulary in experiment class and those who were taught without using songs in controlled class. 2. Alternative Hypothesis Ha There is a significant difference of students’ achievement between those who were taught by using songs in teaching vocabulary in experiment class and those who were taught without using songs in controlled class.