The Belief of EFL Students Using Song For Independent Listening Activity

Abstract

The latest research explores the benefits of including English songs in self-study, particularly concerning listening skills. The study thoroughly researched the students' results in using English songs as a medium to improve their listening ability and other skills outside of class. The study uses a qualitative description of the students who have completed the course of Listening IV and are studying in Universitas islam malang majoring english education. There are two types of data: data and analysis collections. The first stage involved data collection through interviews that answered the first research questions: What benefit do EFL students derive from listening to English songs in the independent listening activity? Seven questions are specifically designed to know the students' experiences listening to the song for independent listening activity. In addition, the second stage describes how a participant answers his or her answers to find the differences as well as the benefits the participants gained while listening to an English song. The study's findings indicate that students have shown positive results regarding using English songs as a tool both in and out of class to improve their listening ability. Based on interviews, listening to English songs helps them improve their ability in English, relating what they hear watching to their life experience, supporting them to think mastering when in the listening class, and focusing on the new detailed grammar presented in the English song. In turn, according to the interview, each participant responded favorably to how English songs helped to develop other English skills. Overall, participants believed that learning through the song was fun. In the English song, participants paid more attention to what the lyrics of the song meant, singing the song as a delight and also to help students understand the new way of grammar. Keywords: English Song, EFL Students, Independent Listening Activity.