Abstract :
The title of this research is :? Using English Songs From Indonesian Musicians As a Tool in Teaching
Listening to the First Grade Students of SMPN 3 Rambah?. This research was designed as an experimental
where the purpose was to find out the effectiveness of using songs as a tool in teaching listening to the students.
This research was conducted at SMPN 3 Rambah and the number of the samples used were 19 students.
In this research, the researcher gave a treatment of using English songs from Indonesian musicians such
as: I will fly from ten 2 five, Welcome to my paradise from Steven and D?Coconut Treez, Hero from Noah and
Just For My Mom from Sheila on 7. Before giving a treatment, the researcher gave a pre-test to the samples to
measure their listening skill. The result can be seen that students? average score in pre-test was 30,35 and
students? average score in post-test was 66. It means, the researcher found that there was a score improvement
after using songs as a tool in teaching listening. The score improvement was 35,65.