Journal Review : The Influence of Listening English Song to Improve Listening Skill in Listening Class

Name   : Dinda Riani

Class    : 4E

NPM    : 1910631060013

Journal : ‘The Influence of Listening English Song to Improve Listening Skill in Listening Class’ by Tri Listiyaningsih

Journal Review

 

Hello all! If you remember, one week ago I did a journal review entitled 'Improving The Students' Speaking Ability Through English Song' by Clara Liva, you can read my review here. On this occasion, I will do another journal review 'The Influence of Listening English Song to Improve Listening Skills in Listening Class' by Tri Listiyaningsih. A study to improve English language skills using the same media, namely English song, but different basic skills, last week were speaking skills and this time listening skills. Happy reading!

This journal entitled ‘The Influence of Listening English Song to Improve Listening Skill in Listening Class’ by Tri Listiyaningsih and published by the Academica on Vol. 1 No. 1, Januari- Juni 2017.

The purpose of the research is to describe the influence of listening English song to improve listening skill, especially in the listening class. What influence that embossed by listening English song also will explain in this article.

This journal was written with qualitative approach about the influence of listening English song to improve listening skill. This article written to know the influence of listening English song to improve listening skill and how the English song can be media to improve listening skill.

To collect the data, the authors conducted interviews with five informants were considered relevant to determine whether the influence of listening English song to improve the listening skill. Five informants interviewed by the author are student majoring in English education in fifth semester which author assumes already have the ability to listen and have experience in learning English, especially have experience in learning to acquire the ability to listen. To enrich the primary data, the authors also reviewed the literature from various sources such as books, internet, journal, and other resources related to research key issues.

From the interviews conducted by the author to five informants, they mention that listening to English song can help in improving the ability of listening. When listening to English song, our ears will be used to capture the sound of song, so that when it is in a class listening, someone who is already accustomed to listening English song, they will be easier to understand the text of existing listening. When listening to song especially English song, people who listen will get more vocabularies in English because when listening to English song, someone who listen will get new vocabulary and are not aware that vocabulary will be recorded in the memory and while in class listening, vocabulary can be helpful in understanding the existing text in a conversation or text is in listening. From the interview with author, there are found that with listening English song, someone can improve the listening skill especially in listening class, improve the pronunciation, and improve the vocabulary mastery.

In conclusion, this journal showed that listening English song can improve the listening skill because song can be media to improve listening skill. When someone learn about English language, they should comprehend in listening skill because listening is one of skill that must comprehend in learning English language. Listening to English song can add the vocabularies, improve pronunciation, and can make comprehend in listening skill and there is way to improve listening skill. Vocabularies can be obtained because people will usual to listen the English word and it can add new vocabularies. Improve pronunciation can obtained because when listen English song, the singer usually is native speaker of English and they will pronounce English well. So that people can use the English song to improve the ability.The result of the analysis, the research finding of the class room action research was satisfactory. The students’ speaking ability through English song had improved. The students were very enjoyment much. Even until this moment when the writer taught at the eighth grade, the students always ask to teach the English song. So, learned speaking by using English song as them form part of enjoyable experience. 

The main advantage of this journal is that the topic is very interesting. This journal also discusses a problem that is often faced by teachers around the world, namely how to improve basic skills in English, namely listening skills. This journal can be an option for teachers to improve students' listening ability in new ways. The language used can be understood well. But, this article also has drawbacks, the journal is too long and often repeats some of the things that have been explained previously. But the research is still useful and can be read with pleasure.

Dinda Riani