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IMPROVING SMA N 14 MEDAN STUDENTS’ LISTENING ABILITY THROUGH ENGLISH SONGS A THESIS BY ADE PUTRI REG. NO. 160721005 . DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA MEDAN 2018 UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA AUTHOR’S DECLARATION I, ADE PUTRI, DECLARE THAT I AM THE SOLE AUTHOR OF THIS THESIS EXCEPT WHERE REFERENCE IS MADE IN THE TEXT OF THIS THESIS. THIS THESIS CONTAINS NO MATERIAL PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE OR EXTRACTED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FROM A THESIS BY WHICH I HAVE QUALIFIED FOR OR AWARDED ANOTHER DEGREE. NO OTHER PERSON’S WORK HAS BEEN USED WITHOUT DUE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IN THE MAIN TEXT OF THIS THESIS. THIS THESIS HAS NOT BEEN SUBMITTED FOR THE AWARD OF ANOTHER DEGREE IN ANY TERTIARY EDUCATION. Signed: Date: July 27, 2018 i UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA COPYRIGHT DECLARATION NAME : ADE PUTRI TITLE OF THESIS : IMPROVING SMA N 14 MEDAN STUDENTS’ LISTENING ABILITY THROUGH ENGLISH SONGS QUALIFICATION : S-1/SARJANA SASTRA DEPARTMENT : ENGLISH I AM WILLING THAT MY THESIS SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR REPRODUCTION AT THE DISCRETION OF THE LIBRARIAN OF DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA ON THE UNDERSTANDING THAT USERS ARE MADE AWARE OF THEIR OBLIGATION UNDER THE LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA. Signed: Date: July 27, 2018 ii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Alhamdulillah, all praise to Allah SWT for his compassion and blessing for me to finish this thesis. Salawat and salam to the Prophet and the most noble Messenger, our Prophet Muhammad SAW, along with his family and his companions. My sincere gratitudes are given to the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Sumatera Utara, Dr. Budi Agustono, M.S., The Head of English Department, Prof. T. Silvana Sinar, M.A., Ph.D., and the Secretary of English Department, Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, M.A. Ph.D, and to all the lecturers of English Department who have shared their excessive knowledge and for their contribution during the academic years. First and foremost, I would like to thank my supervisor and co-supervisor, Dr. Bahagia Tarigan, M.A and Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, M.A. Ph.D for the guidance, advice, support, and constructive comments during the writing of this thesis. Thanks to my beloved parents, Irwansyah S.E and Rosida Damanik. My beloved sisters and brother, Desy Anggraini, Sely Yuli Arfa, and Maulana Ichsan Muhammad for giving the writer support, love, caring, motivation and attention. And also thanks to all of my friends who supporting me in the process of finishing this thesis. Special thanks to Sofyan, S.Pd as the Headmaster and Miss Lusniar, as English teacher of SMA Negeri 14 Medan. Finally, may this thesis be useful for the readers. Thank you. Medan, July 27, 2018 Ade Putri Reg. No. 160721005 iii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRACT This thesis entitled “IMPROVING SMAN 14 MEDAN STUDENTS’ LISTENING ABILITY THROUGH ENGLISH SONGS” is a research to know about the improvement of students' listening ability on weak forms of functional words. To improve the students' listening ability, the researcher uses songs as media. The research data are taken from the results of test in pre-test and post-test with cloze-test design. And the results are written in quantitative method. The data source was taken from 21 students. The results of this research show that there are improvements in students' listening skill by using English songs. It shows by the average score of students in pre-test is 43 (students fell into fair category) and after doing the treatment, the average score increases into 72 (students fell into very good category) in post-test. Keywords: improvement of ability, listening, weak form, songs iv UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRAK Skripsi ini berjudul “IMPROVING SMAN 14 MEDAN STUDENTS’ LISTENING ABILITY THROUGH ENGLISH SONGS” merupakan suatu penelitian untuk mengetahui peningkatan kemampuan mendengar siswa pada bentuk-bentuk kata fungsional yang lemah. Untuk meningkatkan kemampuan menyimak siswa, peneliti menggunakan lagu sebagai media. Data penelitian ini diambil dari hasil tes dalam pre-test dan post-test dengan desain cloze-test. Dan hasilnya ditulis dengan metode kuantitatif. Sumber data diambil dari 21 siswa. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan kemampuan mendengarkan siswa dengan menggunakan lagu-lagu berbahasa Inggris. Hal tersebut dapat dilihat melalui nilai rata-rata siswa dalam pre-test adalah 43 (siswa masuk kategori wajar) dan setelah melakukan perawatan, nilai rata-rata siswa meningkat menjadi 72 (siswa masuk dalam kategori sangat baik) dalam post-test. Keywords: peningkatan kemampuan siswa, mendengarkan, bentuk lemah, lagu v UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA TABLE OF CONTENTS AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ............................................................................... i COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ........................................................................... ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................................................... iii ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................. iv ABSTRAK ............................................................................................................... v TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................ vi LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................. viii CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study ............................................................. 1 1.2 Problems of the Study ................................................................. 3 1.3 Objectives of the Study ............................................................... 3 1.4 Scope of the Study ....................................................................... 3 1.5 Significance of the Study ............................................................. 4 CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Listening ................................................................................. 5 2.1.1 Listening in Process ............................................................. 7 2.1.2 Listening in Foreign Language Learning............................. 8 2.2 Definition of Pronunciation .................................................... 10 2.3 Component of Pronunciation .................................................. 11 2.4 Weak Forms ............................................................................ 11 2.5 The Use of Weak Forms ......................................................... 14 2.6 Teaching Weak Forms ............................................................ 15 vi UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 2.7 Song ........................................................................................ 16 2.7.1 Song in Teaching and Learning Process .............................. 18 2.8 Relevant and Related Studies ................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: METHODS OF RESEARCH 3.1 Research Design ..................................................................... 22 3.2 Population and Sample ........................................................... 23 3.3 Data and Data Source ............................................................. 24 3.4 Data Collection Technique ..................................................... 24 3.5 Data Analysis Technique ........................................................ 25 3.6 Step of Research ..................................................................... 27 CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS 4.1 Analysis .................................................................................. 28 4.2 Findings .................................................................................. 37 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 5.1 Conclusions ............................................................................. 39 5.2 Suggestions .............................................................................. 39 REFERENCES……………………………………………………………………..40 APPENDICES vii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA LIST OF TABLES Table 3.1 One group Pretest-Posttest design............................................................. 23 Table 4.1.1 The functional words in the test ............................................................. 28 Table 4.1.2 The functional words in the Pre-test songs ............................................ 29 Table 4.1.3 The functional words in the Post-test songs........................................... 30 Table 4.1.4 The score of student’s listening in Pre-test ........................................... 30 Table 4.1.5 The percentages of student’s Pre-test score ........................................... 32 Table 4.1.6 The score of student’s listening in Post-test........................................... 34 Table 4.1.7 The percentages of student’s Post-test score.......................................... 35 Table 4.1.8 The percentages of the student’s listening test....................................... 37 Table 4.2.1 Data of research result............................................................................ 38 viii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Looking at the development of science and technology, language has an important rule for human being in their life. People cannot survive without a language. It means that language cannot be separated from other