IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL IN ENGLISH LEARNING THROUGH THE ENGLISH DEBATE STRATEGY AT TENTH GRADE OF SMA NEGERI 2 GEDONG TATAAN

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to improve the students’ learning activity and speaking skill by using Debate Strategy. It was a kind of speaking strategy where the students were trained to make argument in form of positive and negative sides. In this research, the writer used Classroom Action Research as the design in collected the data. The research implementation of research was in two cycles. The sample of this research was in one class only with 20 students. To get the data of research, the writer used observation sheet and speaking test. The test used in this research was speaking debate, it aimed to get the score of students’ speaking skill and used observation sheet for the students’ learning activity. The findings of this research showed Debate Strategy successful to improve students’ learning activity and speaking skill. It can be seen from the average score of students’ learning activity and speaking skill. The average score of students’ learning activity was increased from the first cycle 6.64 while in the second cycle 7.92, it was from less active to active criteria. Then, it was found that the average score in cycle 1 was 60 while in cycle 2 was 80. Therefore, the implementation of Debate Strategy was successful to be used in improving the students’ learning activity and speaking skill at the tenth grade of SMAN 2 Gedong Tataan in academic year of 2022/2023.