The Relationship between The Eighth Grade Students’ Listening Habit to English Song and Listening Comprehension at SMP Al- Hasanah Jakarta in the 2012/ 2013 Academic Year.

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FATRIA FARATAMI, NIM: 0801065067. The Relationship between The Eighth Grade Students’ Listening Habit to English Song and Listening Comprehension at SMP Al- Hasanah Jakarta in the 2012/ 2013 Academic Year. A Paper; Jakarta. The Program Study of English Education, The Department of Language and Arts Education The school of Teacher Training and Education University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka. 2013.
This research is attempted to discover the relationship between the independent variable X (Listening Habit to English song questionnaire) and the dependent variable Y (Listening comprehension test). This hypothesis was tasted there is a significant relationship between students’ listening habit to English song and listening comprehension. It was conducted in June at the eighth grade students of SMP Al- Hasanah Jakarta.
The writer took the data by using test instrument and did the research with a survey method. The instruments of this research are listening to English song questionnaire and listening comprehension test. To calculate the correlation between X variable (Listening Habit to English Songs) and Y (Listening Comprehension), the writer used Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation.
The result of analysis shows that data of the two variables have normal distribution using Lilliefors test. The result of normality of the data distribution (X) Lo = 0.119 is smaller than Lt = 0.161. In scattered diagram, it can be seen that the score has the straight line and linear. From the data analysis, it is known the result of r- observe = 0.39 is bigger than r- table = 0.361. As ro>rt it can be said that Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. So, there is a significant relationship between listening habit to English songs and listening comprehension of eighth grade students at SMP Al- Hasanah Jakarta. Practically through this study the writer hoped that her research will be useful for those who concerned with English teaching especially in teaching listening comprehension through English songs. It can become input to all English teaching to develop better ways of English teaching program.