ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: The primary aim of this study was to reveal teachers’ beliefs and practices on teaching listening using songs for high school students. Songs are one of the materials listed in the syllabus of the recent curriculum to be presented in EFL class for high school students in Indonesia. Therefore, teachers are asked to use songs in their class. English language teachers’ opinions were collected through an interview. The results demonstrated that teachers have strong beliefs about the pedagogical value of teaching listening using songs for high school students. However, finding showed that teachers had difficulty in applying an appropriate strategy to teach listening using songs. In fact, in many teacher training programs there were no specific discussion of teaching listening using songs. Therefore, such programs are needed by teachers to be able to teach listening using songs. By having sufficient competence, the learning goal in general will be achieved successfully.
