Journal Article Critique 10

Citation :

Arung, Fernandes. (2016). Improving the Students’ Speaking Skill through Debate Technique, Journal of English Education, 1(1), 70-76.

ISSN : 2502-6909 

This article mainly discuss about the use of debate technique to improve students’ speaking skill in SMA Negeri 1 Lasasua. The participant are 31 students of XI/IPA-2 class. The researcher use Classroom Action Reasearch as the design or method in this research. From this article, I agree that debate technique is an effective way to improve students’ speaking skill. Not only the speaking ability, but also their critical thinking. They have to be able think fast and logically. Debate also make them work really well with their group to defend  the opponent group. The main point or main purpose of speaking is to communicate with other people. Through debate, the students can communicate well and build a good team work. The researcher use two cycle of tests to measure whether there is an improvement in their speaking ability. In the first cycle, the students’ average result was 64 and in the second cycle, the average result was 78,4. So, it is proven that debate technique can improve student’s speaking skill.

When I become a teacher someday, I will use debate technique as one of my learning activities. However, I will use topic that related with their daily life so that it is not that difficult for them to make an argument. Because in my opinion, the students often find difficulties when they make an argument because they do not really know the topic or the motion of the debate.