Journal Review : IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY USING ENGLISH SONG

Name   : Dinda Riani

Class     : 4E

NPM     : 1910631060013

Journal : ‘IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY USING ENGLISH SONG' by Intan Permata Sari, Elva Elvinna Asahra, Yana

Journal Review

 

Hello all! If you remember, last week i did a journal review entitled 'Improving The Students' Speaking Ability Through English Song' by Clara Liva and The Influence of Listening English Song to Improve Listening Skills in Listening Class' by Tri Listiyaningsih, you can read my reviews here. On this occasion, I will do another journal review ‘Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery Using English Song' by Intan Permata Sari, Elva Elvinna Asahra, Yana. A study to improve English language skills using the same media, namely English song, but on different skills, last week were speaking skills and listening skills, and this time is improving students' vocabulary mastery skill. Happy reading!

This journal entitled ‘Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery Using English Song' by Intan Permata Sari, Elva Elvinna Asahra, Yana.

This research is a Classroom Research Action. The research aims to improve the tenth grade students of SMK Wirasaba Karawang in mastering vocabulary using English songs. Songs can be trusted to help remember vocabulary and used the songs are interested in learning English. Memorizing song can be used to develop English vocabulary mastery so that the purpose of learning English as a communication tool can be achieved optimally

In this research, the researchers used CAR (Classroom Action Research) . According to (Cameron-Jone, 1983) action research is research conducted by researchers with a view to improve the professional practice of researchers and understand it better. There are four stages of each cycle, they are: 
(1) the planning of the action
(2) the implementation of the action,
(3) classroom observation and
(4) reflecting of the action (Kemmis & McTaggart, 1988).
This research was conducted at SMK Wirasaba Karawang, involving 30 students with 20 females and 10 males of class X-Nursing in academic year of 2018/2019.

In this study, the observation of students' new vocabulary mastery was conducted to obtain data and to find out about how well the implementation of memorizing English songs techniques could achieve the research objectives. In this stage, researchers collected data related to the implementation of actions using several instruments. 

The first is the observation checklist that is filled by the observer. The second is the field notes made by the teacher. 

Those two instruments were used to gain the data related to the students’ participation. The third is the result of vocabulary tests conducted by students at the end of each cycle, it aims to obtain data about student vocabulary mastery. The fourth is the result of a questionnaire given to students at the end of the study, which aims to find information about student responses to the use of techniques to memorize English songs.

There are some conclusions drawn based on the conclusion data. First, memorizing English songs can be considered as the right technique to improve students' vocabulary mastery, especially students of class X-K in SMK Wirasaba Karawang. This can be seen from the scores of students on the vocabulary test which increased from the three vocabulary tests given in the preliminary study, Cycle I, and Cycle II. Second, from the revised teaching strategy in Cycle II, it was found that the technique of memorizing English songs would be more promising in helping students' vocabulary mastery problems. Third, memorizing English songs can be a good technical choice in building a crowded classroom atmosphere to generate students' participation in teaching and learning activities. This is because, from the observation checklist, it was shown that the students could actively participate in the teaching and learning activity that was conducted by using English songs memorization. Fourth, the active participation of the students in learning shows their motivation that would be able to build their enthusiasm in learning. Thus, it could be seen from the results that memorizing English songs can be a good technical choice in teaching and learning vocabulary. They stated that memorizing English songs is a very interesting teaching technique to be used because the material of English songs are fun and easy to be followed.

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, how to improving students' vocabulary mastering in English. This journal can be an option for teachers to improve students' vocabulary mastering in different ways. The language used can be understood well. But, this journal also has drawbacks, this journal contains many citations, no big deal, but it does quote a lot. The journal also 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