Abstract :
Teaching listening skill is a challenging task for the English teachers. The fleeting nature
of sound usually makes the students find some difficulties to focus their attention on the
listening material which is being listened to. So, teachers? creativities are needed in this time.
Teacher should deliver the interesting ways in order to conduct listening activities interesting,
fun and communicative.
This classroom action research is conducted at SMAN 1 Tumijajar, Tulang Bawang
Barat. The subject of this study is tenth grade students especially X IPS 4 of SMAN 1
Tumijajar. The researcher chooses X IPS 4 as subject because of the students in this class
get lowest score in listening skill than other class. This class consists of 34 students. The
object of this research is listening skill using English song. In collecting the data the
researcher used observation and test.
The researcher found that the average of test in the pre-cycle is 32,6. Students?
participation in classroom also categorized as low 46%. Students? mean score in the first
cycle is 55,8. Students? participation in cycle 1 is 64%. The result of students? score and
participation in cycle 1 is not fulfilling the criteria of success so the researcher discusses to
English teacher to hold the second cycle. In second cycle students? score is better than first
cycle. In cycle 2 students? score is 81 and the participation is 80%. Students more active and
they can enjoy the class. The improvement of students? score in every test also indicates the
students? listening skill is improving in every meeting. Based on the data, the researcher can
conclude that the use of English song can make students more active, and interested in
learning listening.