Parliamentary Debate. The researcher conducted a pretest in a form of a speaking test, three times treatments, and the posttest.
The design of the research is as follows:
T1 X T2
Where:
T1 : Pretest
T2 : Posttest X : Treatment
Setiyadi, 2004 The reason why the research applied this method was that he would like to
holistically examine and observe the natural phenomenon that occured in the debate activity done by the 2
nd
grade students of senior high school. He also would like to know whether the Asian Parliamentary Debate was applicative and
significant towards the teaching of speaking process.
3.2. Subjects
The subjects of this research were the students of XI A II class, SMAN 5 Bandar Lampung academic year 20132014. The research was conducted in five
meetings, one meeting for the pretest, three meeting for the treatments, and one meeting for the posttest. The sources of the data were the teacher, students as well
as the students’ performances in the debate. Then, the researcher was observing the students when they performed the debate in front of the class.
3.3. Variables
Hatch and Farhady 1982:12 states that variable as an attribute of person or of an object which varies from person to person or from object to object. In order to
assess the influence of the treatment in the research, variable can be defined as independent and dependent variables.
According to Hatch and Farhady 1982:15, types of variable are as follows: 1.
The independent variable is the major variable that was investigated by the researcher.
2. Dependent variable is the variable that the researcher observed and measured
to determine the effect of the independent variable. In this research, the independent variable is known as the treatment variable. The
writer proposed two variables in this research, as follows: 1.
Asian Parliamentary Debate technique as independent variable X because this variable was the major and investigated.
2. Development of students’ speaking components was the dependent variable
Y because this variable determined the effect of the Asian Parliamentary Debate technique.
