Students’ Perception Towards The English Songs
27 to the respondents learning process, especially its integration with vocabulary skill.
The following table consisted the data from the respondents.
Table 4.4 Influence on Vocabulary
No Question
SA A
U D
SD
12 Spending time with listening
to English songs make me more familiar with the
English words 58
39 3
13 Listening to songs make it
easier to memorize new vocabularies in the lyrics
44.5 48.5 7
14 Listening to songs, the new
vocabularies stay longer in mind
45.5 44.5 9.5
0.5
15 The English songs help me to
understand some informal words
46 46
7.5 0.5
SD: Strongly Disagree; D: Disagree; U: Undecided; A: Agree; SA: Strongly Agree
Table 4.4 presented the students’ experience in the implementation of
English song in their learning process. These 4 statements discussed about the influence of English songs in vocabulary skill.
Statement number twelve was about the use of English song to make the language more familiar to the respondents. The data showed that none chose
strongly disagree and disagree, but there were 3 of the respondents that chose undecided. On the other hand, 39 chose agree and 58 strongly agree. From the
gathered data it could be seen that majority of the respondent use songs to make English more familiar to them.
Statement number thirteen was to investigate the other benefit on using song in learning English which was memorizing the vocabulary. Like the previous
statement, none of the respondents chose strongly disagree and disagree, with 7 of the respondents chose undecided. The 48.5 chose agree and 44.5 chose
28 strongly agree. The data convinced researcher that songs helped the respondent to
memorize new vocabulary. Statement number fourteen was the deeper investigation from previous
seven. Based on the data, none chose strongly disagree but there were 0.5 of the respondent chose disagree. About 9.5 respondent chose undecided, 44.5 agree,
and 45.5 with strongly agree. The data showed that English Songs not only helping to memorize vocabulary, but it also helped the respondents to maintain the
new vocabulary stays longer in mind. Statement number fifteen revealed the support of English songs in
increasing students’ vocabulary. The data from table 4.4 showed that none chose strongly disagree, 0.5 disagree, and 7.5 chose undecided. There were 46
chose agree and also 46 chose strongly agree. By the majority of the respondents 92 agreed to the statement, researcher knew that English song helped the
respondents in increasing vocabulary with informal words.