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English language is an important part of world, because by using a language we can communicate and express our ideas. English is taught integrated within the four skills, namely reading, speaking, listening, and writing, considering the language components such as vocabulary, structure, and pronunciation. As we know that vocabulary mastery are very important in learning English because these are set a of rule that has to be mastered by the students in studying English both oral and written form.

By mastering adequate vocabulary means that the learners understanding the meaning of the vocabulary items and are able to use them correctly and appropriately in sentence. So that the sentence has meaning.

Adjective is one kind of vocabulary according to Webber (1978), adjective is a word belonging to one of the major from classes in any of numerous languages and typically serving as a modifier of a noun to devote a quality of the thing named, to indicate its quantity or extent, or to specify a thing as distinct from something else. Most student think that studying is boring and they also get confused to adjective and to use helping adjective.

English through song help English student study speaking, conversation , vocabulary, pronunciation, listening and grammar. It’s for anyone who enjoy learning to speak English here and now program. It teaches conversation rules in browsers in voiced dialogs student and is played offline in browsers. free song lyrics and practice exercises are available on site. Studying in this sings kind of way is fun! Lesson improve speaking skills in dialogs, pronunciation, listening comprehension and sentence structure. Learn to speak, practice listening, develop vocabulary. Research on the effects songs on learning has been in progress for decades. When research on the Mozart Effect the theory that listening to Mozart’s songs can temporarily improve performance, and perhaps even IQ is the fact that ongoing songs education does help children across a wide range of criteria including overall academic performance. The songs we sing provides vocabulary enrichment, teaches tenses and plurals, uses poetic language, allows visualization, and encourages good pronunciation. Though music we learn about ourselves, our culture and that of others, science and math, creativity, jobs, the environment, and emotion. Songs is used to help them understand concepts like high and low, fast and slow, and start and stop.

Songs as a technique can give the students entertainment decide education since it contains many ideas related to up-to-date situation. Students will have fun in songs and in the same time they can also get new words from it. Text of songs often brings certain themes and messages that are also related social issues in our daily life. In reading text songs, student are also able to learn how to express their idea and feelings and also learn human interaction.

Hopefully, by presenting songs with adjective or sentences inside song the students ability in adjective will interest.

Based on the every it was found that see that from 33 students, only 13 students or 39.3% who reach the completeness standard study, therefore the result of the study hoped at SMP Bangun Cipta Rumbia to fulfill the standard of “Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal (KKM)” is < 6.5.

Meanwhile, there are 60.6% students who get the score under KKM. Considering the problem above, the researcher intends to do the research to increasing students ability in mastery of adjective through songs and the result of the observation at SMP Bangun Cipta Rumbia.

1.      Students are low in study adjective mastery.

2.      Students are not motivated in studying adjective vocabulary.

3.      The students get difficulties in doing test of adjective put in vock

The researcher limits the study at the increasing the students’ adjective mastery through song instruction at the Eight grade of SMP Bangun Cipta Rumbia in  the academic year of 2010/2011

Based on the background above, the researcher formulates the problem as follows: Can song instruction be used to increase the students’ adjective mastery at SMP Bangun Cipta Rumbia?

1.          The subject of the research

        The subject of the research are student’s of SMP Bangun Cipta Rumbia.

2.          The object of the research

        The object of the research is the increasing the student’s teaching adjective vocabulary mastery through songs.

3.          The time of the research

        The research will be hold the two years of 2011 academic year.

4.          The place of the research

        The research will be conducted at SMP Bangun Cipta Rumbia.

To find out whether songs instruction can be used to increase at SMP Bangun Cipta Rumbia

The result of this research are expected:

1.          As information for the teachers of English at junior level in helping the students’ especially in learning adjective vocabulary.

2.          As contribution to the English teacher to use songs in teaching learning adjective vocabulary at Junior High School.

3.          Giving contribution in the research improving students’ mastery in adjective through songs generally and at VIII grade of SMP Bangun Cipta Rumbia especially.

Based on literature that be done by researcher in some libraries, many thesis that observed about vocabulary, and here are some of the research the first : “Increasing the student’s achievement in learning the vocabulary of adjective through audio lingual method to the seventh year of SLTP N 1 Seputih Banyak, East Lampung”. (Septa Alfiah 2008)

The distinction this research with previous research by Septa Alfiah is using instruments to give treatments to the students in Septa Alfiah’s research. She used audio lingual method to teaching vocabulary especially in adjective did not teach the students directly to find the data because use to audio lingual method, low motivation student to English learn. In this research found that me result of learning process through audio lingual method has not yet achieve competence minimal standard of this research. The failure can be seen from learning process in 2 meeting. It happened because the teacher do not check students understanding and did not explain clearly. So, some students were not clear in learning vocabulary of adjective.  

In this case the researcher found out some problems in teaching learning activity. The students always face difficulties in learning vocabulary especially using adjective. They feel afraid to make mistake. If the students want to master vocabulary sufficiently. The students may be easier to obtain language skills in speaking, vocabulary is used to construct good sentences. If they have used improper sentences or utterance knowledge of vocabulary.

The second “Increasing the students’ achievement in the adjective through picture to the seventh year of SLTP N 1 Rumbia, East Lampung”. (Eko Andrianto, 2008)

The objectives of this research is to know whether the picture can increase students’ vocabulary achievement in teaching learning process. She is using picture as media to interest and motivate the students in increasing their vocabulary.

The distinction of this research with all previous research overview above are using method and apply the techniques of teaching vocabulary. The researcher using songs to get attention in learning adjective vocabulary. By using the songs, it can increase student’s mastery in adjective vocabulary and songs can make student’s happy in class.

According to Frank (1972:109) the adjective is a modifier that has the grammatical property of comparison. It is often identified by special derivational endings or by special adverbial modifier that precede it. Its most usual position is before the noun in modifies, but it fills other position as well.

Furthermore she classify the type of adjective as follows:

1)          Determiners: consist of a small group of structure words without characteristic from.

a.       Articles: the, a-an.

b.      Demonstrative adjectives: this-plural these, that-plural those.

c.       Possessive adjectives:

-          From pronouns: my, your, one’s, etc.

-          From nouns: John’s, the girl’s, etc.

d.      Numeral adjectives:

-          Cardinal: four, twenty-five, one hundred, etc.

-          Ordinal: fourth, twenty fifth, one hundredth, etc.

e.       Adjectives of indefinite quantity: some, few, all, more, etc.

f.       Relative and interrogative adjectives: whose, what, which.

2)          Descriptive adjectives: it usually indicate an inherent quality (beautiful, intelligent), or a physical state such as age, size, color. Some descriptive adjective take the form of:

a.       Proper adjectives: a Catholic church, a French dish, a Shakespearian play.

b.      Participial adjectives

-          Present participle: an interesting book, a disappointing experience, etc.

-          Past participle: a bored students, a worn tablecloth, etc.

c.       Adjective compounds

-          With participles: present participle: a good looking girl, a heart breaking story, etc.

-          With-ed added to nouns functioning as the second element of a compound. The first element is usually a short adjective: absent-minded, ill-tempered, tear-stained, far-sighted, etc.

The progress of teaching and learning ideally is in order to the material which is learned can be mastered by the students fully, it is called “mastery learning”. It mean that “penguasaan penuh” This thing can be a progress, if the teacher leaves the normal curve as success of teaching. The UUD 1945 states that every Indonesian people get a chance to study as song as life. KKPN “ Komisi Pembaharuan Pendidikan Nasional” states that our education should be natural, wholly and united.

Natural means that education enjoyed by the people in the world. Wholly means in older to get mobility between formal education and informal education. So , education opens for life every Indonesian people.

The effort that can be done in learning mastery is in order to all, almost all is noting. Whereas, the most of the student can master the material complete, so eventually they can be given a higher score. The successful of task a fresh neatly. The progress learning mastery avoids frustration, failure, infer talent and positive attitude to lesson and knowledge that give hope to the students that in the future they will study as long as their lives in order to be able service in the word that always change.

Most of education expects believes that a part of and even almost all the student can master the material with the criteria as follows:

1.      A talent to learnt something

John Carrol states that the students have different Talent, but he has opinion about talent as a different time which is needed to master something . so, the different of talent is not determining the mastery level as kind of material that has learnt, So , everybody is able to learn whatever subject until high limit as long a given enough time.

2.      The quality of lesson

Curriculum has become uniform for whole county, final exam and test to enter in the school and university should make some for whole of school. So, a book of lesson which is raised by the center the lesson.

3.      The capability to understand the lesson

If the student cannot understand what the teacher says or exam plains and if the teacher cannot grow communication with the students , the ability of student to master the material depends on the ability to understand the pronoun of the teacher. On the other hand, in order to the lesson can understood, the teacher should fluent is using language and also able to understand the material    which is explained.

4.      A diligence

The diligence is real from the time that given by students to learn something need a sure total time. If the students have a time less form the time that given to learn something , so they cannot master the material time which is use to learn something should be effective.

5.      A available time to learn

The opinion of learning mastery is time factor that is very assessable to   master the sure material. With enough time students are able to master the material. If the time avoided some for all of the student, so the level of master is determined by talent of the students.

Doren (1980:220) states that song is short musical work set to a poetic text with equal importance given to the musical and in the words. It may be written for one or several voices and it is generally performed with instrumental accompaniment. Redlich (1975:28) adds that songs is short composition usually for one voice, based on lyrics poem.