Teaching English by using English song and poetry is believed to make students have better pronunciation. Using English song can make the learners enjoy to follow teaching learning process and can solve most of the problems concerning motivation. In addition using poetry also easy to learn and fulfill the purpose of teaching material being learned. There are two main objectives of this research, namely(1) to know whether there is significant difference of students' pronunciation achievement

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... een the students who are taught through English song and those taught through poetry (2) to see which one of the techniques is more effective for teaching pronunciation. This research was conducted at SMP Xaverius Kotabumi. The population of this research was the first grade students, VII A as an experimental class and VII B as a control class. The research was quantitative research and used two group pretest-posttest design. Two classes selected by using purposive sampling, will be taken as the subject of the research. The data gained by administering a set of pretest and posttest and three treatments was conducted between them. After calculating the scores of pretest and posttest, firstly it is found that the means of the posttest in Experimental Class was 72.75 and the mean of posttest in Control Class is 69.87 with the mean difference is 2.88 and p (probability level) is lower than 0.05 (0.023<0.05). It indicated that we should reject null hypothesis (Ho) and accept alternative hypothesis (H1) because there is a significant difference of pronunciation achievement between students taught through English song and those taught through poetry. Secondly, the data show that the highest score of pretest in experimental class that taught through English song is 72.50 and the highest posttest is 82.50. it means that the gain is 10.00. Compared with the result in control class, the highest score of pretest is 75 and the posttest is 81.00, and the gain is 6.00. it can be concluded that English song technique is more effective in teaching pronunciation than poetry.