THE CORRELATION BETWEEN HABIT IN SINGING ENGLISH SONGS AND LISTENING COMPREHENSION OF THE SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF BORNEO TARAKAN UNIVERSITY
This study aims to determine whether there is a relationship between the habit of singing English songs and listening comprehension. In this study, researchers used the correlational method. The sample of this study was 73 second-semester students in English Education at the University of Borneo Tarakan. The findings in this study are that in the habit of singing English songs, almost all respondents have good grades, with a percentage of 59.7%. In listening comprehension using scores from the Literal Listening course, 38 students got an AB grade, 27 students got an A grade, 7 students got a B grade, and 1 student got a BC grade. The results of the habit of singing English songs and listening comprehension data are used in the normality and linearity tests. The results are normal and linear data, and correlation calculations use Pearson Product Moment with SPSS 22. The results of analyses using SPSS 22 are significant values 0.665 > 0.05, meaning H0 is accepted. It can be concluded that the correlation coefficient between the habit of singing English songs and students' listening comprehension is very weak. Then in the table value "r" for N = 73 is 0.2213 for a significance degree of 5% where rxy r table. So it can be concluded that there is no relationship between the habit of singing English songs and listening comprehension in the second-semester students of the Department of English Education, University of Borneo Tarakan