Journal Article Critique 11

Citation:

Fauzan, Umar. (2016). Enhancing Speaking Ability of EFL Students through Debate and Peer Assessment. EFL Journal, 1(1), 49-57.

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.

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.