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
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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:
t =
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t = 14,54
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:
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Table 1: The t-test based on signification 5%.
Df
(N-
1)
T test
T
table
5%
significance
Ho
29
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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