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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 =
=
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:
The Impact of Listening Music for the Students’ Vocabulary Mastery
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