(AW) Report Final Project

Name    : Safitri Dyah Utami

NIM       : 2201411058

Academic Writing

Report Final Project :

1.       Identity

·         Title : The Use of English Song by Dido as a Media in Teaching Pronunciation

·         Author : Putri Novita Atfal (2201406519)

·         Year of Graduation : 2010/2011

2.       Research

·         Statement of Problem : How far are the English songs able to improve the senior high school students’ pronunciation?

·         Objectives :

a)      To see the students’ interest in learning pronunciation using English songs,

b)      To find the song affect the mastery of pronunciation to the students, and

c)       To decide whether that songs improve the mastery pronunciation to the student or not.

3.       Heading Chapter II (REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE)

2.1 Review of the Previous Study

2.2 Theoretical Background

2.2.1 Definition of Media

2.2.2 Definition of Song

2.2.3 English Songs

2.2.4 The Advantages of Using in Language Learning

2.2.5 Definition of DIDO

2.2.6 Definition of Pronunciation

2.2.7 Teaching Pronunciation

2.2.8 The Elements of Pronunciation

2.2.9 Vowels

2.2.10 The Characteristic of Senior High School Students

2.3 Framework Analysis

4.       Information about

·         Research Design :

This study is carried in four activities in collecting data. There are Pre-Test, Treatment, Post-Test, and Questionnaire.

a.       Pre-test : the aim is to find out how far the students’ mastery in pronouncing the words under the study provide in the English songs before they are given a treatment. The total words which are given in pre-test are 30 words. They are taken from two songs related to the research that is Thank You and White Flag.

b.      Treatment : the reason of choosing the songs as a treatment is because the song are easy to learn so it is enjoyable enough to the students in learning process. the song will be played in the class two times, they are White Flag and Thank You.

c.       Post-test : this test will be conducted after the treatment are done. The instrument for the post-test is the same with those used in the pre-test so that we can examine whether or not the students’ pronunciation on the difficult words has increased.

d.      Questionnaire : this questionnaire are distributed to investigate whether or not the students are interested in learning English pronunciation to give additional information.

·         Data Analysis :

a.       Analysis of the Pre-test : the first step in the research w as holding a pre-test. The students were asked to read and record one by one list of words given in another class. Then the writer had to score the pre-test for knowing the achievement of the students using some formula. The result of the pre-test mean is 36,76. Then it can be concluded that three students got score more than 50%, a student got score about 50% and 31 students got score less than 50%.

b.      Analysis of the Activities : first, the writer played an English Song “White Flag” ad asked the students to listen carefully. After that, the writer distributed the song’s lyric and asked students to pay attention to some bold words while listening to the songs again. After that, the writer handed out the test to measure the progress of the students’ achievement in order to know whether it was suitable continued to the next treatment or not. The writer finally decided to continue the second treatment used the second song entitled “Thank You” because the average of the treatment was 70. The steps in the second treatment were same as the first treatment. While the result of the second treatment was 72,32.

c.       Analysis of the Post-test : after getting the treatments and the result was enough to do the next activities, the writer decided to do the post-test. The result of the post-test’ mean was 71,24. It means that the result was more than 50 point. Based on the result, there was a student who got a score less than 50 and other students got more than 50. Then the difference of the post-test was 34,48. It means that the students’ pronunciation had increased after getting these treatments. It was concluded that using English songs as a media in teaching pronunciation were effective enough, because the score between pre-test and post-test was significant.

d.      Analysis of the Field Notes : in this study, the analysis of the field notes was done to know and describe the students’ activities during the learning process. They were the students’ participation (the writer observed that all of the students participate very well, not only learned the pronunciation given by her, but they also interested when the writer asked them to sing the songs together), the second is students’ interest and motivation (the writer saw the students were comfortable in the class and enjoy the learning pronunciation using English songs).

e.      Analysis of the questionnaire : the questionnaire was held after all od the activities had done. The result of the questionnaire was 72,29 which prove that the students really enjoy the method so they could make a progress in pronouncing English words.

5.       Summary

·         Conclusions :

The progress of the mean score that is 34,48 shows that using English songs as a media is effective in teaching pronunciation. Beside, the use of English songs in teaching pronunciation has some benefits for the students. They not only learn about how the words pronounced but also masters some English vocabularies. Then the writer find from the field notes which show that the students are interested in learning English pronunciation by using song because it feels more enjoy instead of threatened with the theory.

·         Suggestions :

For the English teachers : they are expected to consider about using new method in teaching English. Teacher has to use something different to attract students’ interest such as using English songs which is related to their own world.

For the students : they are expected to recognize that learning English can be something interesting and enjoying. They can use English songs to improve their English ability.

For the next researchers : they can make this study as they reference to conduct other researches on the same field and able to cover the limitation in this study.