The impact of english songs to enhance learning achievement for students with unequal cognitive

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to: 1) compare the learning achievement of students between pre-test and post-test scores using English songs and 2) identify effectiveness after using English songs. The population in this study were 200 students in Sichuan Yibin Vocational Technical School, China, in semester 2, academic year 2023. The samples of this research were 54 students selected by Chung TeFan’s 27% calculation technique. The research instruments included:1) three English songs, and 2) an achievement test paper.The statistics used in this research included: 1) dependent t-test, and 2) effectiveness index. The research results revealed that: 1) the post-test scores were higher than the pre-test scores with statistically significant difference at the .05 level (t =80.45, p =0.00), and 2) the effectiveness of using English songs was .7363, in other words, the students had higher post-test scores of .7363 percent of cognitive score improvement.