THE USE OF SONGS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION ABILITY

Abstract

The aim of this journal is to find out the utilization of songs as the technique
of teaching listening. Listening is part of four Basic English language skills. It seems
like the other skills such as writing, reading, and speaking. These basic skills are
divided into receptive skill-listening and reading- and productive skill, speaking
and writing. Music and songs are crucial parts of growing and learning. There are
many advantages to using songs in the classroom. There are positive and negative
views on the utilization of songs in foreign language teaching. Using songs in the
learning process especially in the listening lesson it makes the students can improve
their listening skill as one of their meaningful strategies to overcome their problem
in listening skill. English song can make the students become active in the class,
they are interesting, and so they can do a listening task well. However, utilizing
songs in the listening process has the challenges, such as; pop songs are not
scientific, and inefficient sound systems in schools may cause problems while
listening to songs, etc.