Citation:
Fauzan, Umar. (2016). Enhancing Speaking Ability
of EFL Students through Debate and Peer Assessment, EFL Journal, 1(1):
49-57.
After read this article journal, I learn that the
main purpose of this journal is to know the effectiveness of debate and peer
assessment in order to enhance speaking ability of third semester student in
English Department of IAIN Samarinda. The method of the research is CAR because
the problem to be solved come from classroom setting. There are two criteria to
determine whether the method is success or not, those are score improvement and
classroom atmosphere.
Personally, I think debate technique is a
appropriate way to improve students’ speaking skill because it decrease their
anxiety and increase their motivation and confidence. This happen because in
debate, the teamwork is really strong that make the students who are able to
speak well will help their friends who need a help in explain the arguments. Debate
can be included as an effective way to enhance students’ speaking ability
because it enables them to express their opinion and their thought in debate
practice. Peer assessment is also an effective way because it makes the
students aware of their mistakes but they do not avoid threat. The student will
accepted the correction so that the speaking accuracy will raised.
In this research, the researcher use two cycles.
In the cycle I, the goals of the research did not reached yet because the
students participation is only 64% which should be 70%. Because the improvement
of the pre-test to the test on the cycle I is not significant, the researcher
made some improvement of the implementation of debate practice that made the
students’ speaking ability improved in cycle II.
In conclusion, Debate and peer assessment can
improve students’ speaking ability because the students’ speaking ability was
improved 20% from the pre-test and the atmosphere of the class also improved
because the students become active. It encourages them to creatively explore
the language.
