@thesis{thesis, author={Rahmadia Sivoni}, title ={THE EFFECT OF POPULAR SONG IN IMPROVING FIRST - GRADE STUDENTS LISTENING SKILLS AT MTS NEGERI 3 POSO}, year={2022}, url={http://repository.unsimar.ac.id/1541/}, abstract={The purpose of this resarch is to find out the effect of popular song to students listening skills of first grade at MTS Negeri 3 Poso. The researcher uses a pre-experimental research design with 21 students selected using a saturated sampling technique. The instrument of data collection is a test, which is divided into pre-test and post-test. The findings result of the research showes, that there is less significant improvement from the students after getting treatment. It can be seen from the average pre-test score of 74.76 and the average post-test score of 85.23. The results of the Paired Sample Test table show a Sig (2-tailed) value is 0.00 < 0.05. Based on it, there is a not significant effect between the use of popular songs with listening skills on first-grade students of MTs Negeri 3 Poso} }