STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT: THE APPLICATION OF DEBATE TECHNIQUE FOR TEACHING

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This research entitled Students’ Speaking Achievement: The Application of Debate Technique for Teaching to fifth year student of UNISKA Banjarmasin. This research is conducted to measure students’ speaking achievement through debate technique. We learn English to communicate, thus speaking is the real prove of speaking ability. The researcher wants to investigate the student speaking achievement by using debate technique in teaching. In this research, researcher uses descriptive quantitative method. The instrument of this research is test. The test has done by the lecturer in the class with 24 students. From the result of the test the minimum score that student get is 72 and the maximum score is 85 while the mean score is 75.21. based on the score, Debate is an effective way for improving student speaking skill especially for college student. The teacher can apply this technique in teaching speaking.