USING ‘BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME’ SONG TO TEACH PAST SIMPLE IN EFL CLASSROOMS

Autor: Asfi Aniuranti, Putri Amalia Rizkina
Jazyk: Arabic<br />English<br />Indonesian
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Tarling, Vol 2, Iss 2 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2599-1302
2614-4271
Popis: This study was aimed at investigating the effectiveness of an English song entitled ‘Because You Loved Me’ to teach past simple. Past simple itself is one of the necessary yet problematic tenses for learners. The research employed was quasi-experimental pretest-post-test design was employed in this research. The population of this study was five classes of the first grade students of senior high school. Due to the high number of the population, this research only used two classes as the sampling - one class as the experimental group and the other one as the control group. This research was carried out through four stages namely pretest, treatment implementation, post-test and data analysis. The result of the data analysis showed that ‘Because You Loved Me’ song is effective for teaching past simple. The value of t-test was higher than the t-table. The result of t-test formula was 1.91, and the t-table was 1.67. Overall, English song entitled ‘Because You Loved Me’ is effective to teach past simple and using songs in EFL classrooms may also provide comfortable and interesting teaching and learning process.
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