This study aims to determine the effect of listening skills. Songs can be used as one of several listening skills strategies. English songs offer several possibilities for further listening practice for many students, both inside and outside the classroom. English songs give students the opportunity to practice listening skills on their own time and at their own pace. Learning English songs can be a great way to practice listening skills with English songs. Songs are also fun for students because they feel more comfortable learning English because listening to songs is very enjoyable. Learning media are materials, and everything that can convey messages to students, so that learning can take place effectively and efficiently.
This study aims to determine whether there is an effect of listening to English songs on the listening skills of MTs Hasyim Asy'ari students and whether the average score of the experimental class is higher than the average score of students in the control class at MTs. Hasyim Asy'ari. This study used a quantitative approach and quasi-experimental research design to find out the results and the research instruments used were pretest, treatment and posttest. The population used in the control group was 28 students from class 9I and the experimental group was 29 students from class 9H. Analyzed pretest and posttest using normality test, homogeneity test, and Mann Whitney test.
The results on the hypothesis testing criteria, Significance = 0.000 < α = 0.05 means that H01 is accepted and Ha1 is rejected. Based on the results of the test using Whitney, a significance of 0.61 > 0.05 means that there is no effect of listening to English songs on students' listening skills. Based on the hypothesis testing criteria, Significance = 0.000 < α = 0.05 means that H02 is accepted and Ha2 is rejected. Furthermore, based on the test results using Whitney, a significance of 0.61 > 0.05 means that the experimental class average is lower than the control group class.
From the results of the study, it shows that there is no effect of listening to English songs on students' listening skills. Listening to English songs is not beneficial for students because of the lack of focus on students understanding the contents of the song being conveyed to find out the content of the material that has been delivered. From this study, the researcher found that there was no effect of listening to English songs on students' listening skills. Future researcher could investigate students from different characteristics and backgrounds. It is also important for the future researcher to try the English song method in more than three days meeting.
Keywords: Effect, English Song, Listening Skills