THE STUDENTS’ INTEREST IN LEARNING LISTENING SKILL THROUGH THE SONG AT THE SEVENTH GRADE OF SMP NEGERI 27 BANJARMASIN

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Listening is one of receptive skill which has a very important role in learning English because in every conversation and activity, listening is a skill which is mostly used. But in fact, the teaching of listening is seldom is done at school. In addition, the availability of facilities and learning media become influences in the implementation of listening activity. So it makes the students uninterested, bored and tend to be lazy to listen in listening activity. In this research, the writer tries to find out “what is the students’ effort in learning listening and how they respond to children’s song as a teaching media in listening”. The subject of this research were students from seventh grade at SMP Negeri 27 Banjarmasin, with a sample are taken as many as 63 students as respondent. The design of this research was quantitative method with survey approach. The data of this research were collected by using questionnaire. The questionnaire consist of 15 statements that is about the students responses to the learning process using song. The result of this research revealed that the students have positive response to the use of songs as a teaching media for listening. The use of songs in teaching listening can improve students’ listening skill, and the use of songs can also make students interested in learning listening. The learning listening by using songs becomes one of the effective methods in the teaching and learning process.