Abstract
The problem of this study was concerned with British Parliamentary Debate Style Training to improve second semester students’ speaking ability at English Education Study Program at Baturaja University. The objective of this study was to find out whether it was significantly effective or not to implement British Parliamentary Debate Style Training to improve second semester students’ speaking ability at English Education Study Program at Baturaja University. This study used pre experimental design covered pre test before the treatment and post test after the treatment. The second semester students of English Education Study Program at Baturaja University were the population. The number of the population was 18 students. The researcher took class A as a sample by using cluster random sampling. Based on the calculation, the sample of the study was 12 students and the significance level (α = 0.05). The result of paired t test has value of ttest (5.033) was more than the value of ttabel (2.2009) with df = 12-1 = 11. The value of Sig. (2-tailed) was 0.000 lower than the value of significance level (α = 0.05). This result showed that the alternative Hypostudy (Ha) was accepted. It meant that British Parliamentary Debate Style Training could improve second semester students’ speaking ability of English Education Study Program.
 Keywords: Speaking, Implementation, Debate, Baturaja University.
Highlights
BackgroundLanguage is basically speech (Bashir, Azeem, & Dogar. 2011: 35)
The mastery of speaking skills in English is a priority for many second-language or foreign-language learners (Richards, 2008: 19)
Speaking is very important because by mastering speaking skill, people can carry out conversations with others, give the ideas and exchanges the information with others
Summary
Speaking is a productive skill in oral mode. Oral language is the best communication way for delivering idea, opinion, or others. The purpose of learners in learning English is for having a predicate as a good speaker. The mastery of speaking skills in English is a priority for many second-language or foreign-language learners (Richards, 2008: 19). Speaking is very important because by mastering speaking skill, people can carry out conversations with others, give the ideas and exchanges the information with others. Since it’s important, English is taught widely at formal school starting from elementary school up to universities including Baturaja University. It has Speaking subject in English Education study programs
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