'Uslub al-Munazarah 'alā Tarqiah Mahārah al-Kalām

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to improve speaking skills after the application of Debate Method to senior high school students of class XII -A in Ulumuddin boarding school Utenkot, Cunda - Lhokseumawe for academic years 2018 - 2019. The kind of this research is classroom action research conducted in 3 cycles. Each cycle consists of planning, action, observation / evaluation, and reflection. The subjects of this study are senior high school students of class XII-A who are 25 students and the object of this research is speaking skills. Data collection in this study is carried out by the method of observation, interviews and diagnostic tests. Data is analyzed by quantitative descriptive and statistical analysis techniques. The results showed that there is an increase in the percentage of speaking skills of senior high school students of class XI -A in sides of pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary, and sentence structure. Based on the results of the analysis in the first cycle the average student's speaking skills are obtained as much as 70% ("medium" category). Then in the second cycle students' skills improved. The average speaking skills of students are 74% ("medium" category). And in the third cycle the average skill of students are 81.4% ("high" category). Based on the results of these studies it can be concluded that the application of the debate method can improve students' speaking skills in terms of pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary, and sentence structure.