The relationship between the students’ habits of listening to English songs and the listening comprehension at the eighth-grade students of SMPN 52 Jakarta on the first semester in the 2020/2021 academic year

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TIKA ROCHMATIK, 1601055039. “ The relationship between the students’ habits of listening to English songs and the listening comprehension at the eighth-gradestudents of SMPN 52 Jakarta on the first semester in the 2020/2021 academic year.” A paper. Jakarta Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, 2020.

This research objective was to discover the relationship between the students’ habits of listening to English songs and the listening comprehension. The method that the writer used in this research was the correlation research. The population of this research were the eighth-grade students of SMPN 52 Jakarta. There were 6 classes. And then, the writer choosed one class (8 D) consisted 35 students as the sample of the research by using the random sampling. There were two instruments in collecting the data. The first instrument was a questionnaire to measure the students’ habits of listening to English songs and the second instrument was a listening comprehension test to measure the students’ listening comprehension. The data were collected and calculated by using both questionnaire and listening comprehension test. After collecting the data, the writer analyzed the pre- requisite test analysis of those normality and linearity test. The result of the research were normal and linear. Then, the writer analyzed the research hypothesis by using Pearson Product Moment Coefficient Correlation analysis. The result was ro was higher than rtable (ro > rtable = 0,418 > 0,325) so, Ho was rejected and Hi was accepted. It can be concluded that there is a relationship between the students’ habits of listening to English songs and the listening comprehension The writer analyzed ttest significance by using ttest. The result was to is higher than ttable (to > ttable = 2,67 > 1,69) so, Ho was rejected and Hi was accepted. It can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between the students’ habits of listening to English songs and the listening comprehension. The writer hopes the result of the research is useful for the writer and the English teacher.