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Journal : TOFEDU: The Future of Education Journal

Students’ Speaking Skill in Informative Speech at first Semester Students of Development Economics of STIE-SAK Academic Year 2024/2025 Yelnim, Yelnim; Wijaya, Sukarta Kartawijaya
The Future of Education Journal Vol 3 No 5 (2024)
Publisher : Lembaga Penerbitan dan Publikasi Ilmiah Yayasan Pendidikan Tumpuan Bangsa

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61445/tofedu.v3i5.336

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In this research, the writer used descriptive research to analyze the students’ speaking skill in informative speeech. This research was done in order to get description about students’ ability in informative speech. The writer analyzed and described the students’ skill in using speech especially in informative speech. The students used figurative speech in his/her speaking. The population of this research was the students at first semester of Development economics of STIE-SAK academic year 2024/2025, the total of population was 10 students. The instruments of this research were speaking test and questionnaire. From the finding, the result of the test showed that there was no student got A, one students got B (10 %), five students got C (50 %), three students got D (30 %), and there was one student got E (10 %). The students’ speaking skill was in average grade because the mean score was in average score, that was 60, 4 %. The result of questionnaire, it was found that the total checklist of the respondents were in sometime (94) checklist, often (26) checklist, always (15) checklist, rarely (13) checklist, and never (1) checklist. The students faced problems in all of speaking indicators namely grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency and pronunciation.
Students’ Speaking Ability Through Debate Technique at Second Semester Students of Development Economics Major at Stie-Sak Academic Year 2024/2025 Yelnim, Yelnim
The Future of Education Journal Vol 4 No 7 (2025): #2
Publisher : Lembaga Penerbitan dan Publikasi Ilmiah Yayasan Pendidikan Tumpuan Bangsa

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61445/tofedu.v4i7.940

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This study is based on the important of speaking skill. Speaking was important to be learnt because speaking is the way to communicate with other people in order to deliver opinion and express idea, but in fact the students’ ability in speaking English is low. It is caused by several factors such as there are some elements of speaking such as vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar and fluency that must be mastered by students in order to be good English speaker. In this research, the researcher used debate technique to improve students’ speaking ability. The main objective of this study is to describe the implementation of debate technique in teaching speaking and to identify how much students’ speaking ability improvement after being taught by using debate technique. This study is classroom action research that was done in two cycles. The data collection was done using observation and test. The data from the observation that had been taken from every cycle analyzed descriptively while the data from test were analyzed quantitatively. The implementation of debate technique in teaching speaking at second semester students of Development Economics at STIE-SAK academic year 2024/2025 was conducted in two cycles including cycle one and cycle two. The result of this study shows that using debate technique can improve students’ speaking ability. This is proven by students’ test score that improved in each cycles. The result of this study is helpful information for English lecturer in teaching speaking.