The Effectiveness of Songs for Teaching Vocabulary to 5th Students of SDI Bandar Kidul Kediri

Abstract

This research is a descriptive qualitative to investigate the effectiveness of using songs in teaching English vocabulary. The study focuses on the using songs to help the 5th students vocabulary learning especially meaning and pronunciation. All the data taken from observation and questionaire. The observation taken when the teacher implement song as the media of vocabulary learning and the questionaire is about how the songs facilitate the student in learning vocabulary. The writer use observation checklist, interview and documentation. And all the data analyze using qualitative reserarch which are data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusion. This research shows the steps of implementation teaching vocabulary using song focusing on meaning and pronunciation. The songs facilitate the students in learning vocabulary. The students are very enthusiast during the class when they are got new vocabulary from the song, found the meaning of the song, and how to pronounce correctly the new vocabulary that they have learn. In the conclusion we can say that song is one of the most interesting media for teaching vocabulary. The students have more motivation in learning vocabulary specially in meaning and pronunciation.