THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WES

TERN SONG LYRIC IN IMPRO

VING THE STUDENTS' READI
NG SKILL
By: Hana Nurshafa
PBI/6
40117014
Presentation will be divided into 5 parts:
1. Introduction,
2. Review of Related Literature,
3. Method of Investigation,
4. Findings and Interpretation,
5. Conclusion & Suggestion
Background

The writer choose this topic because she find

the students that can not read better word by
word in English text. Most students don't like r
eading, so they are lazy to practice. But the au
thor thinks if learning to read song lyrics while
singing and listening to how the word is spoke
n by the singer in the song, the learning will be
more fun.
 Research Question
1. Can western song lyrics be effective for impr
oving the students' reading skill?
 Objective
To find out whether western song lyrics can
be effective for improving the students read
ing skill
Literature Review
According to Mutiara, at al (2018: 1) Reading
as one of the English language skill that very
significant in supporting people’s way of thin
king and as the interactive process between
a reader and the text.
Farhati (2011:20) states "A song consists of ly
rics. Meanwhile, a song lyric can be used as a
nother way for people to communicate to th
e others, to the young people, or to old peop
le and vice versa."
Hypotesis
Ho : Western song lyric is effective to improvi
ng the students reading skill
Hi : Western song lyric is effective to improvi
ng the students reading skill
Research Designe
Experimental research

Pre-experimental design

One-group pretest-post test design

Source of Data

1. Paper with song lyrics

2. Western song
Technique of Data Collectio
n
1. Pre-test
2. Post-test
Technique of Data Analysis
N-Gain Score
(Normalized gain)