In this research, English songs included to audio media. The researcher played the songs to the whole class to introduce the songs for the first time to the
students. The students hopefully could listen to the song and then they could sing together with their friends and the researcher.
2.7 The Reasons of Using Songs
Songs as media in English language teaching give advantages both to the teacher and the students. By using songs in class, the teacher can create nice
activities, so the students will enjoy the class when teaching learning process happens. Songs give a chance to all the students in class to practice the languange
intensively without feeling bored. Maley, 1985 in Rivers, 1987:93-95 states that there are some reasons on the effectiveness of songs for language learning
activities as follows. 1. Memorability
The students will listen and sing the lyrics of the song several times. It makes both the singer and the listener memorize and understand the words
in the song easily. If the students listen to the song, the lyrics of the song will come to their minds. Besides, if they often sing the song, they will
remember the lyrics of the song in the long term memory. Indirectly, their total number of vocabulary will increase.
2. Rhythmicality Songs have sound and rhythm. The rhythm is useful to get grammatical
information in spoken message. Indirectly, songs can improve the students’ pronunciation while they are singing the songs.
3. Non-triviality One of the functions of the song is to expand our experience. Usually,
most themes of song tell about existence in the world. One of the examples is lifestyle, so the students will know the others’ lifestyle around the world.
Indirectly, the students can learn something new through songs.
4. Universality Song is one of common things in daily life because the use of language in
the song is commonly used among human beings. The themes of the songs are usually common to all cultures. The examples of those themes are
nature, friendship, religious belief, etc. Indirectly, the use of the song in the classroom will teach daily statement or daily conversation to the
students. 5. Playfulness
One of the important things in learning a foreign language is the ability and the opportunity to play with it. By using songs as media in teaching
learning process, the students will not feel bored in learning language. Songs give some opportunities to the students not only to learn language
but also to play with the language. Indirectly, the students can practice to sing a song and learn some new vocabularies from the lyrics of the songs.
6. Reactional language By using songs in teaching learning process, the teachers can see how their
students react to spoken language use. Indirectly, the students can explore their own feelings through song.
7. Motivation Usually, if the students can sing a foreign language song together in class,
they will feel happy. It makes them motivated to know know the meaning of the words in the song. Indirectly, Songs will motivate the students to
learn the new words that they don’t know before in a fun way. 8. Interaction
The use of songs as media offers interaction opportunities for both teacher – students and students – students. The activities like discussion and
evaluation can appear when the teacher use songs in the class. Indirectly, songs as media can be used to exchange the teacher’s and students’ ideas.
From those reasons, the researcher and the English teacher believed that songs could reduce the students’ fear to practice the language since they could
perform to sing the songs.
2.8 Selecting the Appropriate Songs
