Using Debate in Teaching Speaking to Second Year Student of PBI UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh

This research entitled Using debate in teaching speaking to second year student of PBI UIN Ar-Raniry. This research is conducted to find out whether debate is improving student speaking ability. We learn English to communicate, thus speaking is the real prove of speaking ability. The researcher wants to investigate the effectiveness of debate in teaching speaking, whether the students taught using debate have better speaking ability than those taught by non-debate method. The research is done at English department of Tarbiyah UIN Ar-Raniry. Researcher uses experimental research for this research on unit 4 as control class and unit 5 as experimental class. The data from this research is obtained through monolog test from 10 students from unit 5 and 10 students from unit 4 of PBI 2016 to get pre-test and pot-test score. The instrument of this research is adapted from Haris (1969) for speaking scoring rubric. T-test formula is analyzed using SPSS 16.0 application to analyzed data. The result of T-test shows that student from experimental class who get debate treatment get more improvement than student from control class. Thus, the result shows that using debate in teaching speaking does improve students speaking ability.