YouTube is also famously known as the largest video sharing site on the web.
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It is because most of the videos found on YouTube are created by professional film maker until amateurs. They use YouTube to
share their work. Virtually all types and genres of video content such as songs, homemade music, tutorials, films, CCTV records, and many more
are posted on the site. In this case, songs provided in YouTube have a good place because
when you search songs in YouTube and find it in different case, you can choose one, two, or three of them according to what you need; official
video of songs with or without lyrics, video of songs with lyrics on the screen, etc.
From the discussion above, YouTube and songs have a relationship each other. YouTube serves songs in much kind of case. Hence, we can
choose the appropriate songs which we need from YouTube.
5. Teaching Vocabulary Through Song
Using songs in the classroom is a special thing. Songs provide the material in English that students want to understand. They want to be able
to sing the song and understand them . It is become teacher’s responsibility
to provide an appropriate song. In choosing the appropriate song, Griffee lists four categories:
1. The class, it is including the total number of the students and
their age, the time of the day, the language level of the students, and their musical interest
2. The teacher, it is including the teacher’s age and musical interest,
the classroom supp ort to convey the songs, and teacher’s
purpose. 3.
Classroom opportunities, it is including the teacher’s level of independence in determining the material of curriculum, free
class time, and lesson supplement.
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Cory Janssen, What does YouTube mean?, t.t., www.techopedia.com.
4. The music, the kind of music interest, the song that requires
support to the lesson, and lesson plan.
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After deciding the criterion of appropriate songs, we can find the song in YouTube. Then, we can use one of many ways to introduce the
songs and to improve vocabulary in the classroom as follows: 1.
Vocabulary songs -
Play the song with no reparation and no hand-outs. -
Tell the students to listen to the songs that you will give them the words in a minute.
- Give the students the lyrics face down.
- When every student has a copy, tell them to turn the lyrics
over and play the song again. -
Tell them to listen to the song and circle any word or phrase they do not understand.
- Discuss the circled word.
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There are so many ways in serving vocabulary in classroom by using songs. We need to be well-prepared in teaching vocabulary by using
songs. We need to concern about the class, the students, the teacher in order to choose an appropriate songs. After that, decide the suitable ways
in conveying the song to the students.
C. Relevant Study
The first previous study was conducted by Suzanne Medina in 1993 “Acquiring Vocabulary through Story-Songs”. It is an experiment on elementary
school learners. There were four experimental groups. The first one listened to the spoken version of the story with the pictures used to illustrate the main ideas
of the story; the second group also listened to the spoken version of the story but without illustrations. The third group listened to the sung version of the story
with the illustrations shown and the fourth group listened to the sung version of
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Griffee., op.cit., pp. 6-8.
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Griffee, op.cit., p. 26.
