1. There is significant increase of students’ speaking ability after being taught trough debate.
2. The teaching learning using Debate would also increase the process of teaching learning speaking at the second grade of SMA UTAMA 2 BANDAR
LAMPUNG.
III. RESEARCH METHOD
This part deals with research design, subject of the research, research procedures, schedule of the research, data collecting technique, data collecting instrument, data
treatment, and hypothesis testing.
3.1 Research Design
This research was quantitative research. It was be carried out in order to see and to find the result of the application of Debate technique for increasing students’
speaking ability. The one group pretest-post design was used as follows: T1
X T2
T1 =
Pre test X
= Treatment
T2 =
Post test Hatch and Farhady 1982:20
In conducting the oral test, the researcher used inter rater reliability.
3.2 Population and Sample
The research was conducted at SMA UTAMA 2 Bandar Lampung. There were five classes at the second grade or class XI, and the researcher took one class as the
sample which was chosen by purposive Sampling. The researcher used purposive Sampling because the researcher selected people based on the particular purpose for
the experiment. The class has been chosen from one of the active classes. The researcher chose one of attractive class as a sample because the class was attractive
and most of the students were good in speaking. This research was conducted in four weeks, which lasts 80 minutes for each meeting.
3.3 Data Collecting Technique
In collecting the data, the researcher used : a. Pretest
The researcher administrated a pretest which took 80 minutes. The purpose of this test was to know how far the students’ ability in mastering speaking skill.
In administering the pre-test, the writer provided a topic to the students and let them create some arguments based on the topic provided based on their own
knowledge. The test allocated in each group and it would took 5 minutes for each group to tell their arguments to other groups. The writer recorded the
students’ arguments in cassette and the topic is general debatable topic like “ smoking in public areas should be forbidden”. The students’ record result of
