THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING TRANSLATED LOCAL SONGS TO TEACH ENGLISH VOCABULARY AT THE TENTH GRADE OF SMK N 1 SAPURAN, WONOSOBO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2022/2023

Abstract

One of the challenges in English language education in Indonesia is how to teach vocabulary effectively. To address this issue, teaching using translated local songs as a teaching media is proposed. These songs provide a captivating and culturally relevant approach to vocabulary learning. This study focuses on using translated local songs to teach English vocabulary in a vocational high school setting. The research objectives are to measure the students' vocabulary mastery before and after using translated local songs as a teaching media and to find out whether or not the use of translated local songs is effective in learning vocabulary. A quasi-experimental design is employed to assess the strategy’s effectiveness, with the experimental group using translated local songs and the control group using conventional learning-teaching activity. The findings indicate that the use of translated local songs significantly enhances students' vocabulary mastery, as demonstrated by pretest and post-test comparisons. IBM SPSS was used to compute the data. The result of the two-tailed significance value is 0.000. Being compared with the 5% (0.05) significance level, the computation shows that the two-tailed significance value is lower than the 5% significance level (0.000<0.05). Consequently, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. Furthermore, using translated local songs is effective in teaching vocabulary.