STUDENTS' MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH THROUGH SONG-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING FOR THE STUDENTS OF SECONDARY LEVEL

Wulandari, Ayunda (2023) STUDENTS' MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH THROUGH SONG-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING FOR THE STUDENTS OF SECONDARY LEVEL. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Recently, researchers have shown an escalate interest in research on
strategies used by teacher at school. The importance of the strategies used by
teacher in the language learning process to make it easy for students to understand
in learning English. One of these strategies is Song-Based Language Learning. A
song is a short piece of music combining melody and vocals which is included in
the learning strategy. Data from several studies suggest that the use of song-based
language learning strategy can increase gaining vocabulary. However, the
previous studies do not deal with students‘ motivation. Students' motivation is
important because it supports them during learning to take place well, and here
students' motivation is attached to internal factors and external factors in act of
students.
This research aimed to describe: 1) students‘ motivation in learning
English through song-based language learning for the students of secondary level
in point internal factors motivation and external factors motivation, and 2) To
know the teacher‘s perception of using song-based language learning strategy to
escalate students‘ motivation in learning English.
This research conducted qualitative research and the type of this research is
case study research. To obtain the data of the research, the data collection
technique used in this research were observation, interview and documentation.
This research used data analysis developed by Miles, Huberman and saldana.
There were data condensation, data display, and conclusion drawing. This
research was conducted in class VII A at SMP Negeri 8 Jember in academic year
2023-2024 which contains 32 students in this class.
Based on the research result obtained from observation, interview and
documentation, the researcher concluded that Song-based language learning
strategies were able to make students enthusiastic about following lessons, had a
sense of curiosity, enjoyed the lesson happily, and did their assignments seriously.
On the other hand, the teacher also felt that this learning strategy was quite helpful
in organizing and conditioning the class to be orderly and enjoyable. The teacher
also stated that this strategy was able to escalate students' enthusiasm for
learning. Therefore, the use of song-based language learning strategy can escalate
students‘ motivation in learning.

Key words: Song-Based Language Learning, Students‘ Motivation

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