The Impact of Listening Music for the Students’ Vocabulary

Mastery

Pamadya Vitasmoro and Jatmiko Jatmiko

Health Science Faculty, Kadiri University Jalan selomangleng no. 1 Kediri, East Java, Indonesia

{pamadyavitasmoro, jatmiko}@unik-kediri.ac.id

Keywords: Listening music, vocabulary mastery, student.

Abstract: Vocabulary is an essential lesson for the students to master English. The purpose of the study is to find out

the impact of listening music to the students’ vocabulary mastery in the Economics English Community,

Economics Faculty of Kadiri University in 2017/2018. It was experimental research design by using 30

students. The essay test of vocabulary was used to collect the data about the students’ stress before and after

the treatments about teaching vocabulary using listening music. Then the data were analyzed using statistical

formula of t- test computation. The result shows that the students’ total score of pretest is 2217 and posttest

is 2460. It means that the students ‘score increased. From the data analysis, it can be concluded that listening

music has impact to the students’ vocabulary mastery.

1 INTRODUCTION

Vocabulary is an essential thing to master the English

well. There are many ways done to enrich the

vocabulary. It can be done by personal, teacher, or

anyone else. One ways to enrich the vocabulary

mastery is listening music.

Music offers many advantages for learning

languages. Scientists have shown that listening song

and humming along can help with language learning.

There are four facts about language learning

namely: when singing, we try to reproduce sounds

and tone, so our accent is less pronounced than when

we speak, listening music allows us to better

assimilate the syntax and enrich our vocabulary

because the lyrics of the songs are generally

composed of informal expressions and words that we

don’t necessarily learn when studying language,

listening to music helps with memorization, and the

last, infants who listen to multiple languages, as they

grow will have better linguistic sensitivity in these

language in later life.

Based on the Blumstein (1991), she stated that

there is in relation between listening as an index of

cerebral functional asymmetry.

Listening is categorized into receptive skills or

passive skills. This category do not force the students

to produce anything actively. They gain the

knowledge in a passive manner and later they start

producing their own monologues, dialogues and

many other spoken results are created As Dita

Golkova and Sarka Hubackova (2014) said that

passive knowledge such as listening and reading,

symbolizes a springboard to active implementation of

grammar structure, passive vocabulary lists, heard

and repeated sounds of foreign language, however

this journal did not discuss about the real activity to

enrich the vocabulary mastery by listening the music.

It is the differentiate between the research which is

done by Dhita Gholvaka and this research.

Moreover, Sozler (2012) implied that the

vocabulary mastery can be achieved by using

memory strategy training, not by using listening the

music as our research has done.

There are many research about the impact of

listening music. The problem of them, the impact are

for recovery condition such as: the impact of listening

music during a high intensity exercise, such as Lee

said in The Impact of Listening to Music During a

High Intensity Exercise Endurance Test in people

with COPD (In Press, 16 December 2017). In this

research, dyspnea was less while listening to music

and was accompanied by an increased tolerance of

high –intensity. There is also discussion about the

impact of listening to music during the hemodialysis

and at bedtime on sleep quality of hemodialysis

patient as Marzieh Momennasab said such as for the

student’s mastery of vocabulary. However, the

Vitasmoro, P. and Jatmiko, J.

The Impact of Listening Music for the Students’ Vocabulary Mastery.

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researcher want to research about the impact of

listening music to the students’ vocabulary mastery.

The purpose of the study is to find out the impact

of listening music to the students’ vocabulary mastery

in the first semester students of Economic English

Community of Economics Faculty of Kadiri

University in 2017/2018. It was experimental

research design by using 30 students.

2 LITERATURE REVIEW

As Dita Golkova and Sarka Hubackova (2014) said

that passive knowledge such as listening and reading,

symbolizes a springboard to active implementation of

grammar structure, passive vocabulary lists, heard

and repeated sounds of foreign language, however

this journal did not discuss about the real activity to

enrich the vocabulary mastery by listening the music.

It is the differentiate between the research which is

done by Dhita Gholvaka and this research.

Halilah (2013) states the other strategies for

vocabulary mastery by using discoveries and

consolidation strategies are used for vocabulary

learning.

Madawa (2014) got the finding the vocabulary

mastery by using the utilization of the play method.

Based on the journal of Y Zahedi, 2012, one of the

components to master English as a foreign language

is vocabulary mastery. It means that the students have

ability in understanding and using the words and

meaning

Onur Topoglu (2014) stated that music education

has influenced the critical thinking of the students,

because the content of the music education will be

questioned and some suggestions will be made about

the development of music students’ critical thinking.

So, it can be concluded that music education can

make the students vocabulary enrich because they

make critical thinking by using vocabulary.

3 RESEARCH METHOD

In this research, the researcher uses a quantitative

research design where the researcher manipulates the

independent variable, while the dependent variable is

controlled by the purpose of establishing the effect of

variable on the dependent variable. The respondent

was the students of the member of Economics English

Community of Kadiri University, Indonesia in

2016/2017 Academics Years. There were 30 students

included to be sample. The data were analyzed using

t- test computation.

It was experimental research design by using 30

students. The essay test of vocabulary was used to

collect the data about the students’ vocabulary

mastery before and after the treatments about

teaching vocabulary using listening music. Then the

data were analyzed using statistical formula of t- test

computation. The result shows that the students’ total

score of pretest is 2217 and posttest is 2460. It means

that students’ score increased. Based on the report on

the table of t test based on signification 5%, the result

of this research showed that T- score (14,54) > T-

table 5%, the result (1,699). It means that was

significant so the Null Hypothesis (Ho) was rejected

and Alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted.

4 RESULT AND DISCUSSION

It is important to report the result of the study clearly

and completely. The result informs about the process

of pre- test, treatment, and post- test which had been

applied on the students of Economics English

Community, Economics Faculty of Kadiri

University. It consists thirty students. The test was

conducted in the form of written test. The writer

asked the students to find the vocabulary from the

text. The total score which be turned out by 30

students is 2217. Post teaching was about giving

posttest with different topic. The total score was

2460. Based on the scores of pretest and posttest, the

result was analyzed by using t-test:

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t result of this research shows that t-score is 14.54

at the degree of freedom 29 and t- table is 1.699 at the

level of significance of 5% (0.05). It means that t-

score (14.54)> t-table at the level of significance 5%.

Therefore, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted

and (Ho) is rejected. It can be concluded that there is

an impact of listening music toward the students’

vocabulary mastery in the Economics English

Community, Economics Faculty of Kadiri

University. T-test based on significant 5% showed the

table below:

The Impact of Listening Music for the Students’ Vocabulary Mastery

Table 1: The t-test based on signification 5%.

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T test

table

significance

14.54

1.699

significance

rejected

Based on the data report, the result of the research

showed that t score (14.54)> t table 5% (1.699). It

means that it was significant so the Null Hypothesis

(Ho) was rejected and alternative Hypothesis (Ha)

was accepted.

It concludes that there is a significant to the

impact of listening music to the students’ vocabulary

mastery for Economics English Community,

Economics Faculty of Kadiri University in

2017/2018.

Based on the data report of the table of t-test based

on signification 5%, the result of this research showed

that t score (14.54) > t table 5% (1.699). It means that

was significant so the Null Hypothesis (Ho) was

rejected and Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) was

accepted. Besides, in analyze t- test, t score is higher

than t- table. The score of t- test is 14.54 and the t-

table is 1.699 in the level of significant 5% (0.05)

.Based on the t test result which obtain that listening

music has impact toward the students’ vocabulary

mastery.

5 CONCLUSIONS

Vocabulary is an essential thing to master the English

well. There are many ways done to enrich the

vocabulary. It can be done by personal, teacher, or

anyone else. One of ways to enrich the vocabulary

mastery is listening the music. After conducting the

research, the researcher can be concluded that

listening music has its impacted to the student’s

vocabulary mastery.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We acknowledge to all person and institution whose

involve during the process of this research, especially

for the Dean of Economics Faculty and the staff, and

also for all students of Economics Faculty whose

being the respondents of this research.

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