THE PROCESS OF STUDENTS’ EXPERIENTIAL RESPONSE IN RESPONDING LOVE SONG LYRICS

Mohammad Febryanto (Politeknik Negeri Bandung, East Java, Indonesia)
Sansan Yuliansah (STKIP Subang. East Java, Indonesia)

ABSTRACT The aims of this study are first to investigate the process of students’ experiential response in responding song lyrics, and second to investigate the difference of experiential process response between male and female students. The subjects of this research are three male and three female students. Some principles of qualitative research are employed in this study. A Thousand Years and Someone Like You are songs used as the instruments for gathering students’ responses. The data are analyzed based on written document and based on the principal of Reader-Response Theory especially in the process of experiential response. The findings reveal that the process of students’ experiential is engaging. It shows that students use their emotion or their feeling when they put their response toward the love song lyrics. In addition there are no differences between male responses and female responses. Both of them tend to use engaging process and involved their emotion and their feeling. It can be concluded that in responding to love song lyrics, students involve their emotion or feeling. Moreover, expressing the emotion and feeling are not influenced by the gender, male and female tend to show the same expression.

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