Students Perception on Vocabulary Mastery through Song Lyric Gap Fill

Abstract

Mastering a lot of vocabulary will make it easier for someone to read, write, listen and speak. Learners need to adjust their learning style, strategy as well as the use of media that could help students develop their vocabulary mastery early. This study aims to get information on the effect of using song lyric gap fill to improve student vocabulary mastery and student perception of mastering vocabulary using song lyric gap-fill method. This study design is descriptive quantitative whose data collecting method used test and questionnaire as instrument. The test would be conducted by having students answer pre-test and post-test. The questionnaire was being done when the student had received treatment using song lyric gap fill. The result obtained shows that song lyric gap-fill method that was used in this research would increase the average student’s score by 40.8%. The statistical test results show that there is an effect of using the Song Lyric Gap Fill method in increasing vocabularies in 8-grade junior high school students. And the results of student perception of using song lyric gap fill on the vocabulary learning showed that the highest achievement (80%) that students increased new vocabulary with help of song lyric gapfill. While 67% students agreed if they had difficulties in learning parts of speech.