1. Definition of a song
It was explain that there are four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In this paper, the writer would try do discuss one of the language elements of phonology that is pronunciation indirectly and exquisite beauty of the language so she has assumption that a song can be pronounced by the students repeatedly, on the other hand a song can be persuade and entertain the students in studying pronunciation.
According to Geser Waldman, song can provide an enjoyable way to introduce or review vocabulary, and idiomatic expression, teach pronunciation, introduce various aspects of America culture and present or review structure and sentence pattern in vocal way. A song provide context for interesting and effective as idiom, and pronunciation with song.
Songs are good for rhythm, and for young children, especially, they make the business of stress easy and uncomplicated since it doesn’t even have to be explain.
2. The technique of teaching pronunciation
The aim of teaching pronunciation is to make students easy to pronounce the English words in speaking and reading or to accelerate student’s pronunciation through a song. A song can give motivation and love enjoyable English words without making mistakes.
Songs is outline from poetry and story on the other hand a song context short line from poetry and story. It is clear that a song can help the students express their ideas, thinking, and feeling. In this case, the discussion will be more directed until every body understands the content they are singing.
The profit of a song is to comprehend of speech sound, stress intonation, and word by word in a sentence regularly. In teaching learning process especially teaching pronunciation gives a teaching procedure that must be followed by the students. There are the procedures of teaching pronunciation using a song:
1. Teacher is introducing the song, tell a little about it.
2. She provides the lyrics available to students which have been copied and then the students receive a piece op paper lyrics song.
3. She sings a song once and the students listen and enjoy it.
4. Go through the lyrics with students and check comprehension, understanding of the song.
5. She should give the students the opportunities to sing a song. Finally, she evaluates their courage, pronunciation tone, rhythm, stress and intonation.