Male and Female Students’ Perception on the Use of Popular Song to Improve Students’ Vocabulary Mastery

Abstract

This study was aimed to investigate the students’ perception and the teacher’s way to teach popular song to improve students’ vocabulary mastery. The sample of the study was 32 first year students in Vocasional higt school.A qualitative case study was employed, the data were obtained through the observation and questionnaire. Then, the data from the observations were analyzed by transcribing the whole of the activity in classroom and data from questionnaire were presented into percentage. The researcher described the data of the observation qualitatively. In the present study, the researcher proposed three research questions: (1) How does the teacher use popular song to improve students’ vocabulary mastery at English club? (2) What are male students’ perceptions on the use of popular song to improve students’ vocabulary mastery? And (3) What are female students’ perceptions on the use of popular song to improve students’ vocabulary mastery? In responding to the first research question, it was found that the teacher used audio technique such as music in teaching vocabulary. Furthermore, the result of second and third research question found that male and female students agreed that popular song could improve students’ vocabulary mastery, it can be seen from the questionnaire. It showed that students got new vocabularies after listening, learning and reading popular song because it had many new vocabularies and easy to understand. Based on the conclusion, this study suggests that the teachers who teach English, teaching English need various technique, method, and approach that have to apply in teaching learning process in order to give new atmosphere for the students. Using popular song as one of the solution to solve that problem has to be developed by the teachers because there are some activities that could make teaching learning English more fun and enjoyable especially in improving students’ vocabulary mastery because it is rich with vocabularies. Furthermore, the students have to learn deeply about the component of English and learning vocabulary in order to make them mastering English.

English Songs in Vocabulary Learning:Higher-Education Students’ Perceived Views

“…The finding that English songs were thought to have positively affected the learning process in English class accords with other earlier observations by, for example, Florentina (2021) and Rachmawati et al (2020). Their studies found that the students perceived that English songs helped to create fun and lively atmospheres.…”

“…Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the quantitative data collected in this study using SPSS. Citing Fisher and Marshall (2009), Rachmawati et al (2020) explained that descriptive statistics is a numerical and graphical method used to organize, present, and analyze data. The data analyzed in this study were students' perceptions of using English songs towards their vocabulary mastery, collected using a closed-question questionnaire.…”

“…In addition, they could provide appropriate and pertinent English songs for students to learn. Selecting the right English songs will assist their students in getting optimum learning outcomes from listening to English songs (e.g., Faliyanti, 2017;Rachmawati et al, 2020;Wulandari & Mandasari, 2021). In turn, the students can use English songs as a learning resource to help them to use the vocabulary they learn.…”

“…Moreover, English songs are effective methods for learning, acquiring, and retaining vocabulary mastery. It could be that English songs help students provide a pleasant learning atmosphere during the learning process and help students receive information from English songs, Florentina (2021), Rachmawati et al (2020), andYohanna (2016) claimed.…”

“…The analysis showed that their students perceived that English songs, with their interactive nature and attractiveness, could boost their vocabulary-learning interests and motivation. Involving secondary-school students, the studies of Florentina (2021), Rachmawati et al (2020), and Yohanna (2016) have one observation in common that English songs significantly affected their perceptions of English songs due to their effectiveness, usefulness and easiness influencing their enthusiasm to learn vocabulary.…”