THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DEBATE IN TEACHING SPEAKING AT SMAN 1 MOJO
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NENDE ALTIN PRABANDARIUniversitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
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14.1.01.08.0022Abstract
Speaking is a skill that should be owned by the students to do interaction and communication in daily activities. There are some problems that faced by the students in mastering speaking. In teaching speaking, students couldn’t express their idea easily and most of them get lack of confidence in speak up. The teacher should know well how to improve student’s speaking ability in learning process. In this case, the teacher have to motivate the students to enjoy and interested in practicing their speaking ability in the class. In this research, the writer choose debate to make students interested in studying and improving their speaking ability. This research is conducted using quantitive research and experiment method with one group pretest and post-test. This research is conducted at SMA Negeri 1 Mojo and the subject is second grade students which consist of 20 students as the sample of the reserach. The writer give three kinds of activities, they are pre-test, treatment, and post-test. The data result got from student’s score in pre-test and post-test that analyzes using t-test formula. The result show that the t-score i shigher than t-table in the level of significant 5% (2,043). The mean score of post test (61) is higher than pre-test score (42,20). It means there is significant effect using debate in teaching speaking which supported by the result of t-test. from the explanation we could know that Ha (alternative hypothesis) is accepted and Ho (null hypothesis) is rejected. In conclusion, debate is effective to improve student’s speaking ability in learning process.they could speak up in good way and solving the problem and enjoying the class. Furthermore, the teacher should know an interesting topic that will be discussed to make the students interested in doing the activities of debate.
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