Author (Penulis)

Tri Hardiarti
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

12.1.01.08.0170

Abstract

ABSTRACT Writing is one of four basic skills in English competence. The aspects of writing is developing idea, vocabulary, sentence structure, mechanics, and grammar to create a writing product. It is important because writing is a way to produce language to express idea, feeling, and opinion. Sometimes the students have difficulties in composing short message writing, such as: getting idea, and ordering the words because the students can not express their thought without a precise tool. In teaching writing, the teacher have to use better method such as listening to English song media to make students interested in writing because songs are one of the most interesting and rich resources of vocabulary that can be easily used in language classrooms to make the students get more ideas or imagine their thought based on the song that they hear. Based on the strength of listening to English song in writing short message, this paper aims to reveal the effect of listening to English song on students writing short message ability. This is a quantitative experimental research involving the VII-I class of SMPN 2 Gurah which consists of 31 students. Using pre-test and post-test, the result of this research is showed by comparing t-score and t-table. The researcher found that t-score is 10,63 at the degree of freedom 30, t-table is 2,750 at the level of significance 1% and 2,042 at the level of significance 5%. It means that t-score 10,63 ? t-table at the degree of significance 1% and 5%. Based on the result of the research, it can be concluded that listening to English song has a very significant effect to the students’ writing short message ability Keywords: Writing, Short Message, Listening to English Song.

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PUBLISHED

2017-02-13

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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