Review Data presentation and Discussion of The Journal (part 3)

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Today I would like to continue the journal review, the title is The Use of Songs in Teaching Students’ Listening Ability. In this part, I would like to review about the Data Presentation and Discussion part.

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v  Data presentation

Considering the obtained value of t (tobt = 6.542) is higher than the value of t critical (tcrit = 2.021). Thus the null hypothesis was rejected and the use of songs as the media of teaching listening is likely improve the students’ listening ability. This finding supports the research hypothesis that the use of song is effective in improving students’ listening ability. Hence, it can be concluded that result the pre-test and posttest scores of experimental are different and there was an improvement in the students’ listening ability.

v  Discussion

In this discussion part, the researcher will give the explanation about the value from the data. The researcher finds about the difficulties faced by the students toward songs as a media that takes the data from the questionnaire. The students said that listening comprehension is difficult. From 33 students, most of them agreed that listening comprehension is difficult. It is not how is the way teacher explain to the students but because the situation in the classroom. Listening comprehension is held in the classroom and the situation in the classroom is too noisy. So, the difficulties faced by the students is dealing with the noisy classroom. In this research, the treatment is given to the experimental group in an ordinary class. As the result, the noises from another class disrupt the classroom activities. It can be a challenge for the teacher to find the way to overcome the situation. Using the language laboratory is necessary when the teacher wants to use songs as a media of teaching listening.

Another data from the questionnaire is about the fast songs that faced by the students. The teacher’s creativity to develop the material (song) is needed. The teacher may follow the principles criteria when they choose song as media of teaching listening. As it stated by Coromina, (2000) and Lynch, (2005), songs must have clear and understandable lyric. The teacher has to choose the songs with understandable lyric and the slow rhythm so that the students can follow the material from the songs that they hear easily. In addition, different accent from the singer also becomes the difficulties that faced by the students in listening comprehension using songs.

For that reason, the teacher absolutely has to select the appropriate songs which can help the students to learn the language and improve their listening ability. The songs should be understandable and not too fast. Besides, the situation also will influence their concentration in listening comprehension so that the teacher has to find the way to teach listening in quite place such as in the language laboratory. the last, the researcher believed that replaying the songs could overcome the difficulties.

To be continued guys ~

See you next week on the next review, thank you😄