THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN LISTENING TO THE ENGLISH SONGS AND THEIR VOCABULARY MASTERY
| Main Author: | Sari, Jiati Endah |
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| Format: | Article info application/pdf eJournal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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ELTS JOURNAL
, 2013
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| Online Access: |
http://jurnal.untad.ac.id/jurnal/index.php/ELTS/article/view/1592 http://jurnal.untad.ac.id/jurnal/index.php/ELTS/article/view/1592/1062 |
Daftar Isi:
- The aim of this research was to find out the correlation between students’ ability in listening to the English songs and their vocabulary mastery. This research was conducted at SMA Negeri 1 Palu. The population was the eleventh grade students consisting of 202 students. The sample was 20 students taken randomly. The instruments were tests which consisted of listening and vocabulary, and non-test of questionnaire. The two tests were used to get data about students’ ability in listening to the English songs, and their vocabulary mastery. The questionnaire was used to acquaire additional data about their difficulties in doing the tests. The result of both tests showed that rxy was 0.269, df was 18, and rtable was 0.468. In other words, rcounted was lower than rtable. It means that the correlation between students’ ability in listening to the English songs and their vocabulary mastery was not significant. Moreover,there was a positive correlation between the two variables, since the rcounted value was positive.Keywords: correlation; listening skill; English song; vocabulary mastery.