Using English Songs for Learning Speaking in Junior High School

By using descriptions of English songs for speaking ability, the speaking scores of students in class 7 of SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Porong increased significantly. Their score in the pre-test was 15.66 and in the post-test was 22.44, according to the results of the data presentation shown above. Furthermore, there is a statistically significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores, as shown by the t-count value of -11,879, the degree of freedom (df) of 16, and the average difference between the pre-test and post-test scores of -6.784. This is indicated by a significance (sig. 2-tailed) of 0.000. It can be concluded that the pre-test and post-test scores are very different, which shows an increase in the use of English songs for speaking by grade 7 students at SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Porong.