Exploring Debate as a Tool to Develop English Communication Skill in ESP Classromat Accounting Departmentstate Polytechnic of Malang  

Oleh:

Agustina, Lia

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 1, page 265-269.
Topik: debate; develop; English Communication Skill
Fulltext: hal 265.pdf (16.58MB)

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English as a media for a communication skill is extremely important in the 21st century workplace. For that case, teachers have to realize the necessity of developing students’ ability to arise critical thinking, which is regarded as a central responsibility in a college. One of the excellent activities for language learning that engages students in a variety of cognitive and linguistic ways is implementing a debate. Debate is an effective activity which brings students to practice skills of the language properly inside as well as outside the classrooms. It also forces students to speak up to get into discussion, defend their own positions, place counter arguments and also conduct research on related issues. The debaters get involved into challenging activities that force them to well-prepare on any knowledge/global issues in the aforesaid language. By implementing the model, students were expected becoming more aware of global and cultural issues and also gained critical thinking skills. Based on the result of the study, students ‘written and spoken English well increased. The study was a descriptive study. The purpose of the study was used to see the effectiveness of the model. 30 students of the Accounting Department, studying at the fourth semester in the year of 2013/2014 were the subject. The pre-test and the questionnaire were used as instruments to get the data of the study.

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