The The Use of Song as a Medium to Improve the Vocabulary Mastery of the Eighth Grade Students

Abstract

This research was aimed to know whether the use of English song as a medium effective to improve the eighth-grade students' vocabulary mastery. This study used a a quasi-experimental research design. The sample of this study was VIII D which consisted of 26 students acting as the experimental class and VIII E which consisted of 26 students acting as the control class. In collecting data, the researcher used a test namely try-out, pre-test and post-test. The data were then analyzed using SPSS windows version 28.0. Based on the statistics score, it shows that the average of the experimental class is 97.54. So, it can be concluded that the average of the experimental class is higher than the average of the control class. The results of the analysis of the different T-test were in column T (t=36.894) with a probability of < 0.001. It can be concluded that the problem has a significant difference and H0 was rejected, meaning that English song as a medium effective to improve the eighth-grade students' vocabulary mastery