IMPROVING STUDENT’S VOCABULARY THROUGH REWRITING ENGLISH SONG LYRIC IN “THE SHAWN MENDES FOUNDATION PLAYLIST” A CASE OF THE TENTH-GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA N 1 COMAL IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023

The purpose of this study was to determine students' mastery of rewriting an
English song for class X students of SMA Negeri 1 comal and to find out students'
difficulties in rewriting English song lyrics Song lyrics. The test as an instrument
is used to collect data. Data collection techniques, analytical techniques, scoring
systems, data collection procedures, to find out the data needed in research, the
authors conducted field research. This research was conducted at SMA Negeri 1
comal. The sample for this research was class X students for the 2022/2023 school
year, thirty-five students were taken as samples. In analyzing the data, the writer
uses the percentage of scores in the student test which aims to determine student
mastery in doing the test.
The writer found that the experimental class or the class that was not given the
treatment. There is 1 student who experienced a decrease in grades compared to
the pre-test scores, 28 students experienced an increase in grades and 6 students
had the same post-test scores as their pre-test scores.
From the graph the writer concludes that grammar has a small increase, meaning
that only a few students can get high grammar scores, and the one that increases
the most is ideal content, meaning that many students have no difficulty in making
ideal content while vocabulary and punctuation look more stable. This means that
students do not have too many problems working on these aspects. In conclusion,
students experience difficulties in grammar aspects.
Keywords; rewriting, song lyric, vocabulary mastery.