Students’ Perception of Listening to English Songs Habit to Help Their Listening Ability in Prof. Dr. Hamka University

wayan legawa...[et. al].; dr. burhayani, m.pd.;

This research was conducted to find out the students’ perception of listening to English songs habit to help listening ability. The research design of this research was quantitative research. The data collection technique was a questionnaire. Based on the data, the students had an overall positive perception towards the habit of listening to English songs to help their listening ability.
The results from the questionnaire described that almost all of the students agreed that it has many positive effects to students in learning English process, such as; the students are more motivated in the learning process; it can impact in learning; more understand the English skills and components; make students more practice and apply their language skills in daily life.
Besides, there are several aspects of language that improved to students after listening to English songs in learning English, which is; the students easy to know and memorize the vocabulary; better in pronunciation; better in grammatical rules; and make student easy to increase their English skills and components. The students showed that the positive aspects of English songs as a media in learning listening ability can give a lot of benefits to them. Therefore, the use of English songs as a media in learning English skills and components needs to be applied in
language learning to help the students improve their language learning activities.