SKRIPSI

STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN DEBATE PRACTICING

IN ACADEMIC SPEAKING CLASS

(A case study at fourth semester of English Education Department of

Universitas Muria Kudus in Academic Year 2017/2018)

BY:

AYU PUJI ASTUTI

201432026

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY

UNIVERSITAS MURIA KUDUS

2018

STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN DEBATE PRACTICING

IN ACADEMIC SPEAKING CLASS

(A case study at fourth semester of English Education Department of

Universitas Muria Kudus in Academic Year 2017/2018)

SKRIPSI

Presented to the Universitas Muria Kudus

in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirments for Completing

the Sarjana Program in English Education

By:

Ayu Puji Astuti

201432026

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY

UNIVERSITAS MURIA KUDUS

2018

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MOTTO AND DEDICATION

MOTTO:

1. Be brave to face the world, be clever to face problem, be gentle to treat

people, be grateful if you are still have parents make them proud of you.

2. Try everything, even fail keep trying and learning. Learn from your

mistakes make it as a worth experience then.

3. I’d rather than regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t

done.

DEDICATIONS:

This skripsi is dedicated to:

1. Her beloved parents who always give her

support for everything that she does.

2. Her best friends in English Education

Departement who always accompany her in

every step.

3. All of her friends in English Education

Department in 2014 academic year.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First of all, overwhelming praise and gratitude to God Allah S.W.T, who

has given His mercies and blessing, so the writer can finish this skripsi without

any significance of the problem.

During this struggle to finish this research, the writer would also like to

convey her special gratitude to:

1. Dr. Drs. Slamet Utomo, M.Pd as the dean of the Teacher Training and

Education Faculty, for all his supports.

2. Nuraeningsih, S.Pd, M.Pd as the head of English Education Department

for all her supports.

3. Fitri Budi Suryani, S.S, M. Pd as the first advisor, for all the patience and

gives suggestion in writing skripsi.

4. Diah Kurniati, S.Pd, M.Pd as the second advisor, for all the patience and

gives suggestion in writing skripsi.

5. Farid Noor Romadlon, S.Pd., M.Pd as the lecturer of Academic Speaking

Class who facilitates her in conducting this research.

6. The writer’s beloved family, her father (Suwandi) and her mother (Sri

Mulyati) who always give support and pray in everything that the writer

did.

7. The writer’s Special person, Fatih Abdul Rozaq, S.Pd who always

supports and gives motivation.

8. The writer’s best friends in English Education Departement Putri

Minarosa, Herlina, Budi, Masyit, Lily, Rifa, Misbah, Babe, and Afid who

always support and help her.

9. All of the students of English Education Department in Universitas

Muria Kudus for participating in the research.

10. The fourth Semester Students of English Education Department of

Teacher Training and Education Faculty who participated in this

research.

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11. The lecturers of English Education Department of Teacher Training and

Education Faculty who transferred their knowledge during studying in

UMK.

12. All people involved during the writing of this research.

The writer expects that it will be useful for those especially who are in

the field of education.

Kudus, 11th

of July 2018

The writer

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ABSTRAK

Astuti, Ayu Puji. 2018. Masalah Siswa dalam Praktik Debat di Academic

Speaking (Studi Kasus pada semester empat Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa

Inggris Universitas Muria Kudus). Skripsi. Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris,

Departemen Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Fakultas Universitas Muria

Kudus.Advisor: ( i) Fitri Budi Suryani, SS, M.Pd., (ii) Diah Kurniati, S.Pd,

M.Pd

Berbicara adalah keterampilan untuk mengekspresikan ide atau menerima

pengetahuan atau informasi dari satu ke yang lain dalam situasi kehidupan secara

lisan. Dalam kegiatan berbicara di kelas, guru mencoba selalu menciptakan

interaksi dengan bertukar informasi dan mengekspresikan ide. Debat dianggap

sebagai salah satu cara terbaik dan aktivitas kelas yang menarik dari latihan

berbicara. Ini adalah salah satu praktik yang paling menantang di antara yang lain.

Sedangkan perdebatan di kelas bahasa asing umumnya membantu pelajar bahasa

Inggris untuk mengembangkan kemampuan komunikatif mereka. Namun,

beberapa pelajar bahasa Inggris masih memiliki masalah dalam berdebat.

Berdasarkan permasalahan tersebut, tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk

menemukan masalah dan strategi siswa untuk menyelesaikan masalah dalam

debat berlatih di kelas berbicara akademik di semester empat jurusan pendidikan

bahasa inggris, Universitas Muria Kudus pada tahun akademik 2017/2018.

Peneliti menggunakan penelitian kualitatif studi kasus. Metode itu untuk

mendeskripsikan masalah dan strategi para siswa dalam berlatih debat di kelas

academic speaking. Peneliti mengumpulkan data melalui angket dan interview.

Kemudian, data angket tersebut dianalisi ke dalam mean dan standar deviasi

masing-masing pernyataan dan menginterpretasikan hasilnya. Selanjutnya,

peneliti menganalisis data wawancara dengan mentranskripsikan hasil wawancara

ke dalam bentuk tertulis, transkrip diringkas menjadi pernyataan singkat dimana

arti utama yang disampaikan diulang menjadi beberapa kata dan dikategorikan

dengan menggunakan analisis data berkaitan dengan pertanyaan penelitian.

Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa masalah yang dihadapi oleh

siswa dalam berlatih debat di academic speaking class adalah kesulitan untuk

berlatih berbicara, mendefinisikan gerakan, membuat batasan dan menjadi

pembicara pertama dalam latihan debat, kurangnya kosa kata, sanggahan,

mengekspresikan argumen, menemukan data untuk mendukung argumen,

membangun pemikiran kritis, dalam cara mengelola, mengontrol kontak mata dan

menggunakan catatan dalam perdebatan berlatih dan kecemasan. Sementara itu,

strategi yang digunakan oleh siswa adalah melakukan latihan sebelum latihan

debat, menghentikan argumen dalam beberapa menit untuk memediasi beberapa

kata yang akan dihasilkan, mengulangi beberapa kata, menggunakan sinyal non-

linguistik ketika menyampaikan argumen, berdiskusi dengan kelompok sebelum

latihan debat, membuat beberapa catatan, membaca untuk mendapatkan

pengetahuan dari berbagai sumber.

Pada akhir penelitian ini, penulis menyarankan bahwa siswa harus

menerapkan strategi yang sesuai dengan masalah yang mereka hadapi, sementara

dosen harus mengetahui potensi masalah dalam debat di academic speaking class

Kata kunci: masalah; berlatih debat; kelas academic speaking. .

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ABSTRACT

Astuti, Ayu Puji. 2018. Students’ Problems in Debate Practicing in Academic

Speaking Class (A Case Study at fourth semester of English Education

Department of Universitas Muria Kudus). Skripsi. English Education,

Department Teacher Training and Education Faculty Universitas Muria

Kudus. Advisor: (i) Fitri Budi Suryani, S.S, M.Pd., (ii) Diah Kurniati,

S.Pd, M.Pd

Speaking is a skill to express ideas in order to transfer or receive

knowledge or information from one to another in the whole life situation orally. In

classroom speaking activities, the teacher always tries to create interaction by

exchanging information and expressing ideas. Debate is considered as one among

the best way and interesting classroom activity of speaking practice. It is one of

the most challenging practices among the others. Furthermore, debate in the

foreign language classroom generally helps English learners to develop their

communicative abilities. Nevertheless, some English learners’ still have problems

in doing debate.

Based on the problems, the objectives of the research are to find students’

problems and strategies to solve the problems in debate practicing in academic

speaking class at fourth semester of English Education Department, Universitas

Muria Kudus in academic year 2017/2018.

The researcher used qualitative research in case study. That method is to

describe the students’ problems and the strategies in debate practicing in academic

speaking class. The researcher collected the data through questionerire and

interview. Then, the researcher analyzed the data of questionnaire by analysing

the mean and standard deviation of each statement and interpreting the result.

Furthermore, the researcher analyzed the data of interview by transcribing the

interview result into written form, the transcripts condensed into briefer

statements in which the main sense of what is said is rephrased in a few words and

being categorized by using data analysis with regard to the research question.

The result of this research shows that the problems faced by the students in

debate practicing in academic speaking class are difficulty to practice speaking, to

define the motion, to make limitation and be the first speaker in debate practicing,

lack of vocabulary, to rebuttal, to express an argument, to find the data to support

an argument, to build up critical thinking, in managing manner, to control eye

contact and use note in debate practicing and anxiety. Meanwhile, the strategies

used by the students are doing rehearsal before debate practice, pausing argument

in few minutes to mediate some word to be produced, repeating some word, using

non-linguistic signals when delivered argument, having discussion with group

before debate practice, making some notes, reading to get knowledge from any

sources.

At the end of this research, the writer suggests that students should apply the

appropriate strategies according to the problems that they faced, while the

lecturers should know the potential problems in debate practicing in academic

speaking class.

Key words: problems; debate practicing; academic speaking class.

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TABLE OF CONTENT

COVER .......................................................................................................... i

LOGO ............................................................................................................. ii

TITTLE .......................................................................................................... iii

MOTTO AND DEDICATION ...................................................................... iv

ADVISORS’ APPROVAL ........................................................................... v

EXAMINERS’ APPROVAL ........................................................................ vi

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................................................ vii

ABSTRACT ................................................................................................... ix

ABSTRAKSI .................................................................................................. x

TABLE OF CONTENT ................................................................................ xi

LIST OF TABLE .......................................................................................... xiii

LIST OF APPENDICES .............................................................................. xiv

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the research ....................................................................... 1

1.2 Focus and Locus ........................................................................................ 2

1.3 Statement of the problem .......................................................................... 3

1.4 Objective of the research ........................................................................... 3

1.5 Significance of the research ...................................................................... 3

1.6 Scope of the research ................................................................................ 3

CHAPTER II REVIEW TO RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 Concept of Speaking ................................................................................ 4

2.2 Problem Faced by Students in Speaking .................................................. 5

2.3 Debate ...................................................................................................... 6

2.3.1 Rules of Debate .............................................................................. 8

2.3.2 Australia – Asia Debate .................................................................. 9

2.4 Academic Speaking Class of English Education Department of

Universitas Muria Kudus in Academic Year 2017/2018 ......................... 10

2.5 Previous Research .................................................................................... 11

2.6 Theoretical Framework ............................................................................ 11

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CHAPTER III METHOD OF THE RESEARCH

3.1 Design of the research .............................................................................. 13

3.2 Data and Data Source ............................................................................... 13

3.3 Data collection ......................................................................................... 13

3.4 Data analysis ............................................................................................ 15

CHAPTER IV FINDING OF THE RESEARCH

4.1 The Students’ Problems in Debate Practicing

in Academic Speaking Class ..................................................................... 16

4.2 The Students’ Strategies to Solve the Problems in Debate Practcing

in Academic Speaking Class .................................................................... 18

CHAPTER V DISCUSSION

5.1 The Students’ Problems in Debate Practicing

in Academic Speaking Class ..................................................................... 21

5.2 The Students’ Strategies to Solve the Problems in Debate Practicing

in Academic Speaking Class ..................................................................... 25

CHAPTER VI CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

6.1 Conclusion ............................................................................................... 29

6.2 Suggestion ................................................................................................ 29

References ...................................................................................................... 31

Appendices ..................................................................................................... 34

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LIST OF TABLE

Table Page

2.1. Duties of Each Speaker. ............................................................................ 9

4.1. Students’ Problems in Debate Practicing in Based on Questionnaire ...... 16

4.2. Students’ Problems in Debate Practicing Based on Interview .................. 18

4.3. Students’ Strategies to Solve the Problems in Debate Practicing

Based on Questionnaire ............................................................................ 18

4.4. Students’ Strategies to Solve the Problems in Debate Practicing

Based on Interview ................................................................................... 20

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LIST OF APPENDICES

Appendix Page

Appendix 1 Questionnaire.............................................................................. 34

Appendix 2 Guideline of Interview................................................................ 35

Appendix 3 Questionnaire result of students ................................................ 36

Appendix 4 Calculation of mean ................................................................... 37

Appendix 5 Calculation mean and standard deviation .................................. 38

Appendix 6 Interview transcript .................................................................... 39

Appendix 7 Outline course ............................................................................ 40

Appendix 8 Statement .................................................................................... 41

Appendix 9 Keterangan selesai bimbingan .................................................... 42

Appendix 10 Permohonan ujian skripsi .......................................................... 43

Appendix 11 Curriculum Vitae ....................................................................... 45