Pinardi, Pek Albert Christianto (2016) Teachers' & students' perceptions on the implementation of English debate trainings in a Vocational High School in Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya.
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Globalization era demands the people, especially Indonesian people, to communicate effectively, critically, and confidently. Competition in getting the best job requires those aspects to be acquired by the employees. As a foreign language, English in Indonesia is not used intensively by the people; it makes its people getting more difficulty in competing against foreigners who investing their money in Indonesia. This particular condition makes the teachers, especially English teachers, need to be aware of the importance of English speaking skills in order to prepare the students to face the globalization era. One of the ways to encourage the students to speak English more is by creating an activity which requires them to speak more often during the learning process in the classroom. Debate is believed to be one of the ways to improve students’ English speaking skills, speaking fluency, critical thinking, and awareness of the issues happening in the society. The purpose of this study is to compile the perceptions of both English teachers and students of “X” Vocational School via questionnaires about the implementation of the English debate trainings which had been done. The result of this study reveals that both the English teachers and the students believed that debate helped them in improving the students’ English speaking skills, speaking fluency, and critical thinking. Additionally, debate helped the students to aware of their society, especially in the terms of the issues happening in the society and its connection with the social life. However, it remains to be seen that the next researchers of this study need to realize the importance of using debate as one of the strategies to encourage the students to be more active in English speaking and more critical in thinking. There should be further experiments in order to get the information whether debate can be an effective way to help Indonesian’s young generations to flourish in the globalization era.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate) |
|---|---|
| Department: | ["eprint_fieldopt_department_Faculty of Teacher Training and Education" not defined] |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Perceptions, implementation, debate |
| Subjects: | English Education |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Teacher Training and Education > English Education Study Program |
| Depositing User: | Users 2892 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Mar 2016 03:44 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Mar 2016 03:44 |
| URI: | http://repository.ukwms.ac.id/id/eprint/6407 |
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