Using English Parliamentary Debate – World Schools Format to Improve Public Speaking Ability of the First Year Students of English Self Developmental Program in SMAN1 Pekanbaru

Abstract

Using English Parliamentary Debate – World Schools Format to Improve Public Speaking Ability of the First Year Students of English Self Developmental Program in SMAN1 Pekanbaru Yudi Suseno, Rumiri Aruan, Hadriana Faculty of Teachers Training and Education University of Riau Abstract Debate is often seen as one of the exciting form of public speaking. The challenge of learning to be resourceful thinkers that is able to compose ideas and articulate them to convince the panel of adjudicators. If we pay more attention, debating can be one of the most basic, but important, skills that educators can offer students. In parliamentary debate, students will assume the roles and some of the conventions of members of the Government Houses. This format lends itself to create a more dramatic form of presentations, The research design is an Action Classroom Research that concentrate the assessment based on public speaking ability. The findings of the research shows a significant rises of figures of each criteria based on two cycles conducted in SMAN 1 Pekanbaru.