THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE EDUCATIONAL DEBATING METHOD IN IMPROVING STUDENTS' ORAL COMMUINCATION SKILLS

• Main Author: Rosita Sianipar, - (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2011-01-28.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Link Metadata
• Notes: http://repository.upi.edu/103371/1/s_ing_0606053_table_of_content.pdf; http://repository.upi.edu/103371/2/s_ing_0606053_chapter1.pdf; http://repository.upi.edu/103371/3/s_ing_0606053_chapter2.pdf; http://repository.upi.edu/103371/4/s_ing_0606053_chapter3.pdf; http://repository.upi.edu/103371/5/s_ing_0606053_chapter4.pdf; http://repository.upi.edu/103371/6/s_ing_0606053_chapter5.pdf; http://repository.upi.edu/103371/7/s_ing_0606053_bibliography.pdf
• Keywords: L Education (General)

This study aims to examine the effectiveness of the educational debate method in teaching oral communication skills. This study adopted a quasi experimental method that was conducted in a private Senior High School and a private Vocational High School in Bandung for a month. The non-equivalent control group that consists of a pre-test, treatment and post-test was used as the research design in this study. In this case, the second grade students in class XI-IPS SMA and XI-SMK became the sample of this study. The TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) spoken tests were used as the research instrument. The data were analyzed through SPSS 15.0 and they were interpreted in a descriptive way. The results of this study indicate that the mean of the post-test scores in the experimental group are significantly higher than that of the control group. In other words, the use of the educational debating method is effective in improving students' oral communication skills. The research findings are expected to give good contribution to the EFL (English for Foreign Language) teaching methodology, to enhance the students' and teachers' knowledge related to the oral communication skills, and to develop the students' and teachers' creativity in the teaching learning process of speaking.