The purpose of the study is to find the correlation between (1) the habit
of listening to English songs and listening skill; (2) grammatical mastery and
listening skill; (3) habit of listening to English songs, grammatical mastery
simultaneously, and listening skill. The method used in this study was
correlation study. The total population was 80 and the sample was 20 students taken with the cluster random
sampling technique to select one class to participate in the tryout and one
class to participate in the study. The instruments in collecting the data are a
questionnaire and a test. The questionnaire was used to collect the data
of habit of listening to English songs
while the objective test is used to collect the data of grammatical mastery and
listening skill. The technique used to analyze the data
were Pearson Product Moment and Multiple
Linear Regression and Correlations. The results of the data analysis
indicate a significant correlation between the habit of listening to English
songs and listening skill; grammatical mastery and listening skill; and between
the habit of listening to English songs, grammatical mastery simultaneously,
and listening skill of the seventh semester students of Sebelas Maret
University. From the research findings, it can be concluded that both the habit
of listening to English songs and grammatical mastery positively correlated to
listening skill.
