From the description above, the creative way in vocabulary mastery is needed. Those findings have serious consequences for students in English
learning, especially vocabulary mastery and student’s achievement in English.
The teaching of vocabulary for junior high school needs creative, appropriate and different strategy from ordinary way, in other that the students can
feel enjoyable and become active in the classroom. The teacher also should stimulate them to use the words which they have already known and brainstorm
them about the new words around the topic, even though it appears in their native language. One of the strategies which can fulfill these requirements is by using
song from YouTube. Using song from YouTube
in students’ vocabulary mastery is considered to be able to make the students easier to master vocabulary without pressure but
fun. Song is considered as one of alternative ways to improve English especially on vocabulary; like what Wrenshall said;
“there is also plenty of evidence that song help memorization, and the rhythm and rhyme of the lyrics can certainly
help vocabulary as well.”
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Moreover, songs are fun a nd familiar to students’ ears,
because songs are easy to find in the television, cassette, radio, and mp3 player. In addition, using songs from YouTube also would instantly motivate students to
learn the language as they are able to listen the songs as well as read the lyrics projected on the screen.
Based on the Curriculum 2013, song has contribution in learning process as bellow:
“Core Competency: Understanding knowledge factual, conceptual, and
procedural based on their curiosity about science, technology, art, culture relevant with phenomena and occurrence that happened”
Basis Competency: Comprehend the message within song
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John Wrenshall, Using song to Improve Communication Competence. Bangkok: November. AUA Language Center, 2002, p .43.
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Kurikulum 2013: Kompetensi Dasar Sekolah Menengah Pertama SMP Madrasah Tsanawiyah MTs, Jakarta: Kementerian Kependidikan dan Kebudayaan, 2013 pp. 66-67
From the statement above, Song is considered to be one of the resources that can be utilized in the teaching and learning of English. Through the
appropriate songs which are chosen from YouTube, the students can comprehend the knowledge factually, conceptually, and procedurally. In relating to master
vocabulary, it means at once we practice our listening; we catch new words we never heard before. In other words, while singing, the students are able to read the
lyrics and this indirectly encourages them to learn new words. This research is important to be done, because most of students at
RUHAMA Islamic Junior High School are still unwilling to master their vocabulary. The writer thought that using songs from YouTube as a
supplementary aid can affect students’ willingness to master vocabulary. This
research is hoped to provide useful information about English song for teacher and students. The teacher is hoped that they can take advantages from the
information about English song from YouTube and he or she can evaluate it whether this strategy is better to be applied in the classroom.
Based on the explanation above, the writer wants to propose the English songs from YouTube
towards students’ vocabulary mastery. She wants to know whether English song from YouTube
is effective to improve students’ vocabulary mastery. Thus, the writer will focus on the effectiveness of the English songs from
YouTube towards students’ vocabulary mastery.
C. Identification of the Problem
Based on the background mentioned above, the problems can be identified as follows:
1. Most teachers have not been able to create the atmosphere of learning
interesting and fun. 2.
Low achievement in English subject may be caused by lack of teacher’s effort to provide the appropriate strategies for the students to
master vocabulary. 3.
The students are lack of interest in mastering vocabulary
4. The students consider that English is difficult; they get the difficulties
to differentiate vocabulary.
D. Limitation of the Study
Based on the problem identification, the writer focuses on the effectiveness of the selected English songs from YouTube
towards students’ vocabulary mastery. It will be conducted to the students at the seventh grade of
RUHAMA Islamic Junior High School at South Tangerang.
E. Formulation of the Problem
Dealing with limitation of the problem, the researcher would like to formulate the problem as follow
“Are the English songs from YouTube effective towards students’ vocabulary mastery at the seventh grade of RUHAMA Islamic
Junior High School at South Tangerang?
F. Objective of the Study
The objective of the study is to know whether English song from YouTube is effective towards students’ vocabulary mastery at the seventh grade of
RUHAMA Islamic Junior High School at South Tangerang.
G. Significance of the Study
This study will provide useful information for teacher, students, and other researchers. The teacher can take advantages from the information about English
song strategy in mastering vocabulary and she or he can evaluate whether this strategy better or not to be applied in the classroom. For the students, hopefully,
they will have better improvement on their vocabulary mastery. And for other researchers, this study is expected to be a reference for who are interested in
conducting similar studies.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
This chapter presents the description of the theoretical framework used in the study. It includes definition of vocabulary, types of vocabulary, what need to
be taught, techniques, problems in teaching vocabulary, definition of song, function of song, advantages of song, YouTube and songs, teaching vocabulary
through song, relevant study, thinking framework, and hypothesis of study.
A. Vocabulary
1. Definition of Vocabulary
The word of vocabulary has many meanings. Many definitions can be found about vocabulary from some experts, but the writer only chooses
several of them which are important to be discussed. Vocabulary is one of the language aspects that is supposed to be
learnt when people are learning a language. It is considered to be the main focus of learning a foreign language since there is a belief that learning a
foreign language is similar to learn its vocabulary. Vocabulary is also very important in English teaching and learning. Ghazal said that words are
perceived as the building blocks upon which knowledge of the second language can be built.
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It means that if the learners do not know the meaning of words, they will have difficulty in understanding what they
see, read, and learn. They cannot practice or build the language if they are lack of vocabulary.
Hatch and Brown said, “vocabulary refers to a list or set of words for a particular language or a list or a set of words that individual speakers
of a language might use. ”
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According to Richard and Renandya, they assert that “vocabulary is a core component of language proficiency and
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Lotfi Ghazal, Learning Vocabulary in EFL Context through Vocabulary Learning Strategies, Novitas Royal. Vol. 1, no. 2., 2007, p. 84.
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Evelyn Hatch and Cheryl Brown, Vocabulary, Semantics, and Language Education, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, p.1.
provides much of the basis for how well learners speak, listen, read and write. Without an extensive vocabulary and strategies for acquiring new
vocabulary, learners often achieve less than their potential. ”
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Penny Ur also
asserts that “vocabulary can be defined, roughly, as the word we teach in the foreign language.”
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The term of vocabulary also stated on Walch’s book, “Vocabulary
is collection words that you hear and read throughout your life. Your own vocabulary will never stop growing. The larger your vocabulary is, the
more you will understand what you hear and read. Your writing and speaking will improve too.”
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This statement is supported with the reality that songs are fun
and familiar to students’ ears, because songs are easy to find in the television, cassette, radio, and mp3 player; the students can
always improve their vocabulary. From the statements above, it shows that vocabulary is the basic of
language. It is words that can be used by individual speaker and is a very important tool to master a language. The vocabulary of a person is defined
either as the set of all words that are understood by that person of the set of all words likely to be used by that person when constructing new
sentences.
2. Types of Vocabulary
In language area, there are numerous kinds of vocabulary based on several experts. First, dealing with the characteristic of the words,
vocabulary is divided into two kinds. a.
Active vocabulary: it refers to language items which the learners can use appropriately in speaking and writing. Active vocabulary
also called as productive vocabulary.
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Jack C Richards and Willy A Renandya, Methodology in Language Teaching: An Anthology of Current Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, p. 255.
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Penny Ur, A Course in Language Teaching, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 60.
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Walch Publishing, Content-Area Vocabulary Strategies for Social Studies, Portland: J. Weston Walch Publisher, 2003, p.1.
