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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
This chapter consists of six sections. The first is the background of the problem. The second is identification of the problem. The third is limitation of the
problem. The fourth is the formulation of the problem. The fifth is the objective of the research and the last is the significance of the research.
A. Background of the Problem
Language is important in life since it builds communication with other people. There are thousands of languages in the world, but there are only a
number of them that are well known, one of them is English. In Indonesia, English is categorized as foreign language. The students started to learn this
language in Junior High School. Actually, the students begin to learn English in the Elementary School, but the government changed the policy so English is not
taught in the Elementary School anymore, so the students will be start to learn English in Junior High School. Some Elementary School still taught English as
local subject in their curriculum, but some others no longer includes English as their subject.
English subject consists of four skills; Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking. Speaking itself has some aspect that must be mastered if a person is
going to be a good speaker. And Speaking, as one of the major four skills has sub skills that are needed to be mastered in order to be a good speaker, such as
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each other, to be a good speaker, those sub skills should be mastered too. Based on observation on the speaking activities in the school, the researcher
found some problems related to the speaking activities. The students often just attended the class while their body in the class but their mind is somewhere else.
The problem also appeared in the vocabulary, the students often got confused how to say something in English, even the simplest sentences. Moreover, the problem
appears again in the context of grammar. The students keep making mistakes when they try to speak, they often misused the function and grammar in English,
and for example, they said ‗change‘ when the subject is ‗he or she‘. Another problem also appeared in pronunciation, they often just guessed how
to pronounce some words with no effort to check on the dictionary whether the words they pronounce is right or not. The researcher had tried to fix this problem
by used some various technique and teaching material, however the students kept making mispronunciation and they looked uninterested with the material, even
some students often asked for permission to go out for some reasons. One day, the researcher used a modified song that wass downloaded from a
website to warm up session of listening; surprisingly the students look very excited when they hear the song, it was very different when the neither teacher
nor researcher used another kind of material. From all this fact, that was why the researcher saw that songs can be a way to improve student
s‘ skill in English, especially speaking skill.
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B. Identification of the Problem
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