This research paper is entitled “ The Use of song By Bruno Mars Entitled “Count on me” in
Improving Students’ Listening Ability”. This study was intended to find out whether the use
of teaching English using Song can improve students‟ listening ability or not. In addition this
study is also intended to know the students‟ responses toward the song used for teaching
listening to improve students‟ listening ability as technique for teaching listening ability. The
research method used quantitative method and pre-experimental design with one group pre-test
-post-test design. The population of this research were students of seventh grade of SMPN 11
Bandung and it had 13 classes with 480 students divided into 260 girls and 220 boys. The
writer only took one class which is VII- 6 as the samples consisted 40 students randomly from
13 classes. The instruments of this research that were applied were; pre-test, post-test and
questionnaire. The treatment was implemented and was administered to the experimental class.
The data of this research was collected by giving the pre-test, post-test to students as the
sample. The collected data were analyzed by using SPSS 13.0 for Windows t-test formula. The
data from questionnaires were analyzed in order to find out the students‟ responses toward the
use of song by Bruno Mars in teaching and learning process. This was caused by p – value
which was lower than the alpha (0.000 < 0.05), so that the null hypothesis was rejected. It
indicated that there was differences between pre-test and post-test score after treatments. Based
on the result of questionnaires as the used most of the respondents gave positive responses
toward the use of song by Bruno Mars technique in teaching listening skill. It can be concluded
that teaching listening by using song is effective in improving students‟ listening ability
