IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS BY USING CLASSROOM DEBATE
Abstract
The main purpose of this research is to find out how far the improvement of students’ speaking skills after they are taught by using Classroom Debate. The population of this research was the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan which consist of 335 students as and the writer was taken 67 students as the sample of this research. The research methodology used in this research was a classroom action research method. And as the instrument for collecting the data the writer uses the written test. From the value of average scores got by the students in the pre test, that is 59.78. In posttest 1, the average score is 71.94. In addition, in posttest II, the average score is 79.03. The percentage improvement of the implementation between pretest and posttest 1 is 20.35 %. Moreover, the percentage improvement result of the implementation between pre-test and post-test 2 is 32.21%. It means that there is a significant improvement of the students’ skills in speaking after they are taught by using Classroom Debate to the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan. At the end of cycle two, the result of the posttest showed that there were 60 students or 82.09 % who passed the KKM. It was significantly improved from the pretest which gained only 11.94 % and in the posttest 1 which had 56.72% improvement. Therefore, based on the class percentage result from the pretest to the posttest 2 in the second cycle, it could be seen that there were 52.94% improvement that this CAR could gain. It was proven that the use Classroom Debate can improve the students’ skills in speaking to the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan From the analysis of the collected data it has been known that there is a significant improvement of the students’ skills in speaking after they are taught by using Classroom Debate. It can be seen from the percentage improvement result of the implementation between pre-test and post-test 2 is 32.21%. So that the hypothesis of this research is accepted.
