CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background of the Study As we see, children’s curiosity is very high. the child actively tries to make sense of the world and asks questions. They will try to search information about something that they want to know. They also ask something that they feel new and strange for them. They ask adults or people around them everything they want to know. Indeed they ask the information to people they have just known. Because of the high curiosity of children, I view that songs are very good as media to teach English pronunciation. It is because the language that is used in the songs is English. Children are not accustomed to English. And based on that reason, children will try to do any efforts to know much about the songs. If the children have a willing to know the songs, they will try to learn anything related to the songs.
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the Study
As we see, children’s curiosity is very high. the child actively tries to make
sense of the world and asks questions. They will try to search information about
something that they want to know. They also ask something that they feel new and
strange for them. They ask adults or people around them everything they want to
know. Indeed they ask the information to people they have just known.
Because of the high curiosity of children, I view that songs are very good as
media to teach English pronunciation. It is because the language that is used in the
songs is English. Children are not accustomed to English. And based on that reason,
children will try to do any efforts to know much about the songs. If the children have
a willing to know the songs, they will try to learn anything related to the songs.
Here, I emphasize the pronunciation of English. I choose the pronunciation
because of the differences between the two languages-English and Indonesian. There
are many differences between English and Indonesian especially in pronunciation. As
we see, the differences between English and Indonesian are very significant.
Therefore, there are many students of Junior High School especially the students of
SMP N 1 Baktiya.
1.3 Problem of Study
The problems of the research can be stated as follows:
1. Can teaching English pronunciation by singing songs improve student’s ability in
English pronunciation?
2. Is it pleasing to singing songs in teaching English pronunciation?
1.4 Objectives of the Study
The objectives of the study are:
a.To find out whether singing songs as media in teaching English pronunciation can
improve pronunciation ability of the students of SMP N 1 Baktiya or not.
b.To find out whether singing songs as media in teaching English pronunciation is
pleasing or not.
1.5 Significance of the Study
The results of the study are expected to be able to give the following benefits:
a. For English Teachers
The results of the study are expected to be used as a consideration in teaching
pronunciation for young learners.
b.For The Readers
It is expected that the study will be useful for further research and enlarge the readers’
knowledge in singing songs as media.
1.6 Limitations of the Study
The limitations of the study are made as follows:
a.The children songs use simple words so that they are appropriate to the language
level of the students of SMP N 1 Baktiya.
b.The children songs are related to their environment and part of their body.
c.The test is done in the form of oral test. It is done by singing the songs.
d.The testes are the first grade students of SMP N 1 Baktiya .
1.7 Outline of the Study
There are five chapters in this final project. Chapter one consists of background of the
study, reasons for choosing the topic, objectives of the study, significance of the study
and limitation of the study. And the last one is the outline of the study. There are
several discussions in chapter two. Firstly, it discusses singing, songs and the
definition of singing songs. The next discussion, talks about teaching media,
characteristics of Junior High School students and teaching English to Junior High
School. The next discussion is pronunciation. It consists of definition of pronunciation
and teaching pronunciation. As the last discussion of this chapter are singing songs as
media in teaching English pronunciation. It consists of contributions of singing
songs in teaching English pronunciation and the way how to apply them in the
classroom. Chapter three discusses the method of the study. It consists of the subject
of the study, the variable, and the instrument of the study. It also presents the method
of the study -pre test, the four activities by singing English songs and the last is the
post test. Chapter four presents the result of the study and discussion. It tells about the
distinction of student’s ability in pronunciation. It compares the pronunciation ability
before and after the treatment. It also discusses the reason behind the result of the
study.
Chapter five presents conclusions and suggestions of the study. It presents the
conclusions of the study from the beginning until the end. There are some suggestions
from me based on the result of the study.
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Children
As we see, children are an object that is interesting to be discussed. It is caused
because of the nature of the children itself. They are able to work with others and
learn from others (Scott and Ytlberg, 1990:2-4). They also love to play. Moreover,
children are very active. Not only that, they are also intelligent. As listed above,
children are able to work wit others and learn from others. Connected with the
education world, this characteristic of children is exceptionally beneficial to the
teaching and learning process. It makes the teacher easier to convey the material to
the students (children). It because based on the nature of children they can work in
group and learn something from their friends. Out of the education scope, childhood
is a pleased period. They can do anything they want to do. They do not think that it
disturbs others or not. They also do not think that it inflicts others or not. They can
play the whole time as they want. It is appropriate to their nature that they love to play
(Scott and Ytlberg, 1990:2-4). Moreover children are very active. It is in line with
Donaldson’s opinion in Cameron (2001: 4) that the child tries to make sense of the
world. They do something as though they don’t have fatigue. They will do anything,
provided they are happy. Here, their enthusiasm in doing something they like is very
great. And their enthusiasm in doing something is a source of their energy to do
activities they want to do. Besides the reasons above, children are intelligent. They
will try to solve a problem around them that sometimes can not be solved by adults.
As Cameron (2001: 2) says that “the child is seen as continually interacting with the
world around her/him, solving problems that are presented by the environment”. For
example, there are two youngsters, an elder sister and her younger brother. At that
time, they went sight seeing by bike. The kickstand of the bike was broken. The elder
sister was confused thinking how to repair the kickstand. Without much thinking, the
younger brother repaired the kickstand optimistically. And finally, the younger
brother succeeded in repairing the kickstand. From the example above, we see that
children are intelligent.
2.2 Song
“A song is a short of piece in one concise movement for the medium of solo voice and
piano”. (Simms, 1993:29). According to Parto (1996: 99), a song is a group of
arrangements which consists of lyrics and elements of music like rhythm, melody,
harmony and expressions. Moreover, “A song is a musical composition for the voice
of several voices”, “A song is a short poem whether intended to be sung or not; a lyric
or ballad”. (The International Websters comprehensive dictionary of the English
Language, 2003: 1127). The American Heritage Dictionaries says that song is:
“Music is a brief composition written or adapted for singing. It also says that song is a
distinctive or characteristic sound made buy an animal, such as a bird or an insect.
The last definition, song is poetry, a verse and a lyrics poem or ballad”.
www.answers.com/topic/song
Other definitions of song are listed below:
“Song is the act of singing, the characteristics sound produced by a bird, a short
musical composition with word, a successful musical must have at least three good
songs. It also says that song is a distinctive or characteristic sound. Besides that, song
is the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to1279 and a very small sum”.