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The correlation betwween habit in listening English songs and their pronunciation at the students of SMA Teladan Way Jepara in academic year 2014/2015
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Rahayu, Sri. 2015. The Correlation between habit in listening English songs and their pronunciation at the students of SMA Teladan Way Jepara in academic year 2014/2015. An Undergraduate Thesis. English Education Study Program, Teacher Training and Education Faculty. Muhammadiyah University of Metro. Advisors: (1) Prof. Dr. Hi. Juhri A.M., M.Pd. (2) Refai ,M.Pd.
Key word: correlation, habit, listening English songs, pronunciation.
Students pronunciation at eleventh grade of SMA Teladan Way Jepara in academic year 2014/2015 still low, it can be seen on the result of final test from English teacher. The average of pronunciation is about 34 % which get a score less than KKM (75).. The researcher can be identified some problem which are discovered such as: Students' habit in listening English songs is still low, The students explain that listening to English song make students bored because they did not know about the song's meanin^and students' pronunciation is stll low. But, the researcher find out the main cause of this problem namely lack of pronunciation. Pronunciation is one of the most important parts of English to communicate with other people. This weakness then cause the students are not trained to pronounce vocabularies well. The objectives of this research were to find out the correlation between students' habit in listening English songs and their pronunciation. This research was conducted at SMA Teladan Way Jepara. The population was the eleventh grade students consist of 98 students. The sample was 27 students taken randomly.
In this research, the researcher uses quantitative research method as a way of framing correlation research design. Correlation research here mean one group to be tested the data without giving any treatment. In doing this research, the researcher used two test to get the data namely habit in listening English songs (Questionnaire) and pronunciation test (practice). The researcher uses cluster sampling technique and gets XI EPA as the sample. In this research, to analyze the data the researcher use product moment correlation.
The result of analysis gained as follows: there is positive correlation between habit in listening English songs and pronunciation Because the index of value r= 0,78. It means a criterion of value r is high positive correlation. After that, the researcher gets value of significant correlation is tobservation=6,32. It is compared with ttabie for the significant in a = 0, 05 (5%) with dk = n - 2= 25, so t table is 2,05. Finally, the data confirmed that tobserre higher than ttabie (6,32> 2,05). Therefore, it can be inferred Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. It means that there is positive and significant correlation between students' habit in listening English songs and Pronunciation.
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