The Relationship Between Students’ Habit of Listening To English Songs and Their Vocabulary Mastery at The Seventh – Grade Students of SMPN 49 Jakarta in 2018-2019 Academic Year

dr. roslaini, m.hum; neti hartati, m.pd;

ANNISA PURNAMASARI, NIM: 1401065014. The Relationship Between Students’ Habit of Listening To English Songs and Their Vocabulary Mastery at The Seventh – Grade Students of SMPN 49 Jakarta in 2018-2019 Academic Year. A Paper; the Study Programme of English Education the School of Teacher Training and Education the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA Jakarta 2019.
The objective of this study was to find out the empirical evidence whether
there is a significant relationship or not between students’ habit of listening to
English songs and their vocabulary mastery at the seventh-grade students of
SMPN 49 Jakarta in 2018-2019 academic year. This study was held on February
2019. According to English teacher information there are two excellent classes
these are VII A and VII B, so the writer chooses the VII A as purposive sample
that consist 35 students. The method of this study was quantitative method which
uses a correlational study of Pearson’s Product Moment. The instruments used for
collecting the data were likert – scale questionnaire to know the students’ habit of
listening to English songs and vocabulary test used to measure students’
vocabulary mastery.
The scores of two variables were calculated by using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation. Based on the result of Chi-Square test, the data of two variables had normal distributions. The result of normality in χ2 o students’ habit of
listening to English songs and χ2 o students’ vocabulary mastery were smaller than
χ2 t = 9,41. Chi-Square test result of χ2 o students’ habit of listening to English songs = -155,3 and χ2 o students’ vocabulary ability = -53,52. From the scattered diagram, the scores are not closed in the linear line, so the both data were not linear.
From the r-test, the result of ro= 0,154 is smaller than rt= 0,339. As ro < rt, it
can be said Ho is accepted it means there is no relationship between students’
habit of listening to English songs and their vocabulary mastery. And the research
result benefit are inform the teacher about the relationship between students’ habit
of listening to English songs and their vocabulary mastery, and English songs can
be used as an alternative for learning English.