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Citation:

Somjai, Satit., & Jansem, Anchalee. (2015). The Use of Debate Technique to Develop Speaking Ability of Grade Ten Students at Bodindecha (Sing Singhaseni) School, International Journal of Technical Research and Applications, Special issue (13): 27-31.

After read this article journal, I have learnt that the objetives of this article are to investigate the effectiveness of using the debate technique in developing the English speaking ability of grade ten high school students and to explore the students’ perceptions towards debate technique learning in the classroom. The research was conducted at Bodindecha (Sing Singhaseni) School in Thailand and the participant are 46 students from the 10^th grade.

Personally, I think debate is a valuable tachnique to improve students’ speaking skill as well as their participation in the classroom activity. Students who are lack of motivation and confidence become more active when join the debate activity. Debate also build a good team work. Students who are not able to speak in front of the class will be supported by their friends and they will not feel under-pressure anymore.

Why debate is choosen to be the technique to develop speaking ability? Debate has many advantages. those advantages are: it allows the students to share and cooperate well with their friends;  it makes them responsible; it encourages creativity; it makes the friendship deep and  builds rapport with the teacher; it motivates the students and make them enjoy the activity; it can improve the students’ speaking ability; it makes the students do more conversation; makes the student confident.

To know the effectiveness of debate technique to develop speaking ability, the researcher conduct pre-test and post-test. In the post-test, there is a significant improvement from the pre-test. The average mean score on the post test is 11.7 and the average mean score o the pre-test is 10.2. The results indicated that 10^th grade students developed in their English speaking abilities after learning through debate technique.

When I become a teacher in the future, I will use debate as one of speaking activities because it has many advantages and proven that it can improve students’ speaking skill. Also, based on my own experience, I speak more in the debate activity and it grows my confident.