Listening to Music, Does it Relate to Students’ English Skills?  

Oleh:

Djahimo, Santri E. P.

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 1, page 299-306.
Topik: English Skills; Listening Skills; Speaking Skills; Music; Listening to Music
Fulltext: hal 299.pdf (16.58MB)

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The aim of this study is to find out whether or not students’ interest, in this case, listening to music (English songs) relates to their English skills (speaking and listening). 30 students of the first semester of English Department, Nusa Cendana University have been taken as the sample of this study, and the data has been collected and analysed in a qualitative way through interview, questionnaire, and documentary (students’s final scores of speaking and listening subjects). The questionnaires cover the issues relate to the students’ interests, particularly, listening to English songs. The interviews cover the similar issues to the ones in the questionnaires, in this case, they are used to recheck and sharpen the students’ answers. The study reveals that there is a relationship between the students’ interest (listening to English songs) and their English skills (speaking and listening). This can be proven by looking at their answers in the questionnaire and relating them to their final scores of speaking and listening subjects. 12 students (40%) who always listen to English songs get the best grade (A) in both speaking and listening subjects. 10 students (33%) who fall into the category of sometimes like listening to English songs get great scores as well for both subjects (25% get A for speaking, 15% get A for listening, 35% get B for speaking, and the rest 25% get B for listening). None of the 8 students (27%) who seldom listen to English songs gets A score for both speaking and listening subjects. 19% students of this category get B for speaking and 6% get B for listening. Most students of this category get C for both subjects (31% for speaking and 44% for listening). This study only has limited aim and has been conducted for a short period of time, that is why, the issues of how significant the relationship is and whether or not the students’ perfomance is as good as their final score cannot be assured as there are some aspects dealing with these are not observable. The outcome of this study will leave a room for finding out more about the correlation in a statistical way in order to find out how significant the relationship is.

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