not only be properly encoded but also decoded.
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It means discussion is three or more people interacting face to face, with or without an assigned leader in such a way that
each person influence, and is influenced by another person in the group. From the explanation above, it can be concluded that discussion technique is design
to provide to opportunity for discussion between teacher and students, and students to students. It means that the technique creates to conversation and exchange of ideas in
class.
b. Teaching Speaking through Discussion Technique
Teaching speaking through discussion technique can assist our teaching speaking. The problem of developing small group teaching dependsas much on student training
as on teacher training. According to Brown and Atkins, Effective small group teaching is a much more challenging task than isoften realized. It is relatively easy to
have a vague meanderingdiscussion. It is much more difficult for students to discuss coherently,to question, and to think.
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Many teachers would agree that the best discussion in class are those that arise spontaneously, either because a something
personal that a learners reports or because a topic or a text in the coursebook in triggers some debate. Here for example, a teacher describes how one such discussion
erupted in a class of catalan teenagers. In this case, the teacher knew how to advantage of the students’ concern, and turn this into a discussion activity in English.
Based on the statement above it can be concluded that teaching speaking through discussion techniquecan help the student to get a lot easier for interaction with each
other in the class and gets easier to understand about the material especially speaking.
c. Procedure of Teaching Speaking through Discussion Technique
The procedure of teaching speaking through discussion technique are: 1 The teacher should prepare the material and gives the purpose of the material.
2 The teacher chooses the case that will be discussed from the material. 3 The teacher asks the students to discuss with their team consist of six students
and give the material 4 After that, one of teams prepare to discuss the result in the front of the class
through speak up. 5 And another team makes a resume of what another team explains.
6 After all finish, the teacher submits their resume in each team.
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d. Advantages and Disadvantages of Discussion Technique 1 Advantages
