The use of Lyrics Training Website to improve Communicative skills

Abstract

The current research aimed to determine the effectiveness of Lyrics Training website in communicative skills improvement. This process involved 77 students from Eighth year of basic education from a private high school who were chosen to form the target population. It was a quantitative research approach with quasi-experimental design. The wholepopulation was divided into two groups: the control group with 38 students; while the experimental group was formed by 39 learners whose parents signed aninformed consent. The students were evaluated twice through the KET (for schools) exam from Cambridge Assessment web page that constituted the data collection instrument. It mainly focuses on aspects like listening for main idea, for specific information, pronunciation, interaction, and spelling. Researcher designed an intervention proposal after gathering data from the pre-test and corroborating the low level of students. It contained class plans focused on listening with three steps: prelistening while listening and post-listening to improve communicative skills. Those class plans applied the communicative approach to promoting student interaction while singing a song. The Lyrics Training website tools were identified, such as the game format and the difficulty level that students can choose. After the intervention process, the students took the post-test. Data analysis was carried out through SPSS statistical software where T-student test was applied to compare means. With 95% of xii reliability and 5% of error, the control group did not show anyimprovement. On the other hand, the experimental group obtained a higher result in comparison with the previous one in the pre-test. This fact makes the researcherto conclude that the use of Lyrics training website is beneficial for the teaching learning process and students’ communication skills improvement. In this context,it is highly recommended to use the results from this study to develop further research to contribute with students’ communication skills enhancement.