Improving Students’ Listening Skill Through English Song Using Spotify Application in Madrasah Tsanawiyah Baitul Arqom Jember.

Munawaroh, Shinta Faizzatul (2024) Improving Students’ Listening Skill Through English Song Using Spotify Application in Madrasah Tsanawiyah Baitul Arqom Jember. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Shinta Faizzatul Munawaroh, 2024: Improving Students’ Listening Skill Through English Song Using Spotify Application in Madrasah Tsanawiyah Baitul Arqom Jember.

Keywords: Spotify Application, Listening Skill, Classroom Action Research.

English is one of the international languages that everyone around the world must know and understand. Listening to English songs makes it easier for students to understand English. For example, Mts Baitul Arqom students who try to learn English by using English songs have improved in listening, but learning to listen well is not as easy as it seems. Listening to music becomes an activity young people. There were so many kinds of music streaming application that could helped them listen to music everywhere. The researcher used the Spotify application for English learning media. The definition of Spotify itself is an application designed to facilitate English learning, especially listening.
The focus of this research: How does Spotify application can improve students' listening skill in Madrasah Tsanawiyah Baitul Arqom Balung Jember. The research objective: To describe that Spotify application can improve listening skill in Madrasah Tsanawiyah Baitul Arqom Balung Jember.
This research used Classroom Action Research (CAR) as method of Kemmis and Mc Taggart which consisted of four procedures, namely plan, action, observe, and reflect. This research, the researcher conducted in 2 cycles and the criteria of succes (KKM) in English subject is 75. The object of this research is students 8th A class of MTs Baitul Arqom consist of 29 students. To collect the data, the researcher used the students’ listening test, observation, interview.
The results obtained in the pre-test stage were an average score of 43,41 by the total 1.259, while 6,89 learning completeness from these results was known to be low scores obtained in the pre-action, this was because the subject teacher were less using English songs in improvement students’ listening skill. The researcher concluded that cycle I up to cycle II, the students listening skill was improved. It showed from the percentage of students improvement in pre-test was 06,89% that referred by 2 of 29 students who finished. At cycle I, the percentage of students improvement was 20,68% who stated by 6 of 29 students who finished. The percentage of students improvement in cycle II has raised by 82,75% with 24 students of 29 students who finished the score, it indicated that using Spotify application through English songs effective was improve students listening skill.
Based on the explanation above using Spotify application through English songs to improve students’ listening skills has succeed and completed. So, by using Spotify application in 8th A class of MTs Baitul Arqom was improved.

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