THE EFFECT OF SONGS TO THE STUDENTS’ RECOUNT TEXT WRITING QUANTITY (An Experiment at the Second Semester Class A of English Education Students Unib)
Abstract
This study tries to find whether or not song can improve the students’ recount text writing
quantity. This quantity means the total of word that was used in a text. The population of the
research was the second semester English Education students Unib class A that was 38
students. The class was divided into two groups (group 1 and group 2). The sample was the
group 1 as the experimental group and the group 2 as the comparison for the experimental
group. The instrument was a writing text. The pre-test was done to find the quality of both
groups. In the pre test result, it was found that Tcount was 0,36 while Ttable is 2,093. Its mean
was there is no significant difference between the groups. By this result, any group could be
decided which one as control group or experimental group. After the treatments were done on
experimental group and the conventional method on control group, the post-test could be done.
Based on the analysis of the post-test, the Tcount (4,85) was higher that Ttable (2,093). It could
be concluded that the experiment was successful because of song can improve the student’s
recount text writing quantity
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