Improving Students Listening Ability Through English Song

This study aims to investigate the improvement of students' listening skills in English using songs as the medium. The research methodology employed is the quantitative experimental method with data collection techniques in the form of tests (pre-test and post-test). Class VIII students totaling 12 people were taken as a population and also used as a sample in this study using a saturated sampling technique. The results show that the use of songs improved the listening skills of class VIII students with a pretest average score of 12.08 and a posttest average score of 17.91, indicating that the posttest score is higher than the pretest score. In the t-test, the min obtained is higher than the table t-test value, namely ± 12.4048, which is standard the value of 5% in the t-test table is ± 2.262. Based on these results and facts, I conclude that the listening skills of SMP-IT Madrasatul Qur'an students increased after using song-learning media.