The Use Of English Kids Songs To Improve Learner's Listening Comprehension In MTS Swasta Al Ikhlas Tanah Terban

The researcher found that the seventh-grade students had difficulty listening because the teacher only dictated what they should hear without any media. The purpose of this research was to find out the effect of kid’s song in increasing the student’s listening skill and to find how the English kid’s song can increase their listening comprehension. This research was conducted with a quasi-experimental research design. There are two data in this research; pre-test and post-test, and the two will be compared. First data from experiment class and second data from control class. The research population selected was two seventh-grade students at MTs Swasta Al Ikhlas Tanah Terban, which consisted of 2 classes or 40 students. The first class was used as an experimental class taught using English kids' songs, and the other class was a control class that does not receive treatment. The researcher choosed 7A Class as experimental class and 7B Class as experiment class. Before the researcher distributed the test, the researcher did validity and reliability test. The researcher gave pretest to the students before gave treatment. After the researcher did the treatment, the researcher gave posttest to the students in order to took the final result. Based on the result of the research, the researcher found that there was a significant difference between the students’ listening comprehension scores that were taught by using English Kids song and who were taught without English Kids song. In experimental class, the mean score of pretest is 44.6. After the researcher gave the treatment, the mean score of posttest of experimental class is 61. In control class, the mean score of pretest is 44.3 and the mean score of posttest is 50. English Kids song made the students remembered about the pronunciations of vocabulary and made them interested in learning listening comprehension by English Kids Song.