The Relationship Between Habits of Listening to English Songs and Vocabulary Mastery of the Second Semester of Students of the eighth Grade of SMPN 82 Jakarta in the 2019 / 2020 Academic Year

helmy djun djunan; drs. sigit sumarsono, m.pd; nurhandayani supraptiningsih, m.pd;

Siti Urfah Nurhaeni: 1501055109 “The Relationship Between Habits of Listening to English Songs and Vocabulary Mastery of the Second Semester of Students of the eighth Grade of SMPN 82 Jakarta in the 2019 / 2020 Academic Year’’ Mini thesis. Jakarta: The Study Program of English Education the School of Teacher and Education the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA, 2019.

The research aims to find out empirical evidence the non-causal relationship between habit of listening to English songs and vocabulary mastery on 2019/2020. The method of the research was an associative quantitative survey upon 252 students as the population. The numeric data were collected from 31 sample respondents through a questionnaire and a vocabulary test.
Based on Pearson’s Correlation Analysis, the observed correlation
coefficient (ro) was 0.792. Through a t-test, the coefficient was significant
therefore the Null-Hypothesis has been rejected. The conclusion was there have not been a relationship between habits of listening to English songs and
vocabulary mastery of the Second Semester of students of the Eighth Grade of SMPN 82 Jakarta in the 2019 / 2020 Academic Year’’.The research is aimed to know the students’ difficulties in listening and to explore the factors of students’ listening difficulties. The writer uses mixed method in this research. The writer used quantitative approach because the writer used numeric data of the questionnaire about students’ difficulties in listening skill and used the qualitative approach because the writer used the phenomenology data to explore the factors of students’ difficulties in listening skill. The writer uses purposive sampling technique with the minimum sample is 30%, so the participants of the research are 100 students from social classes to fill the questionnaire and 8 students to be interviewed. The findings of the research show that there are difficulties in listening skills faced by students, which include unfamiliar words, rate of speech, unfamiliar accent, unclear pronunciation, recording quality, and inadequate facility. While the factors of those difficulties are background knowledge, lack of practices and environment noise.