THE CORRELATION BETWEEN PRONUNCIATION MASTERY AND LISTENING TO AN ENGLISH SONG OF SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 17 PALEMBANG
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- The objectives of this study were to find out (1) whether or not there was a significant correlation between pronunciation mastery and listening to an English song (2) how the pronunciation mastery and listening to an English song were. The study was correlational with Pearson-product moment analysis. The population of this study was 245 students of SMP Negeri 17 Palembang and selected by using purposive sampling technique. Class 7.6 was chosen as the sample and it consisted of 34 students. Since the two other students were absent, so the sample consisted of 32 students. To collect the data and to measure students’ listening to an English song, one song (Blue Night by MLTR) and pronunciation mastery test were given. The Pearson correlation was used in data analysis using SPSS 21. Furthermore, the correlation between the two variables was not significant since the r-obtained was lower than the value of r-table (.035>.349) at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). The value of probability (.849) was higher than 0.05, so there was no significant correlation between pronunciation mastery and listening to an English song of seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 17 Palembang. One factor that may affect the result was some of the students had known the song.