PROCEEDING OF SHEPO 2020 (International Conference On Social Sciences & Humanity, Economics, And Politics) 39 STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT: THE APPLICATION OF DEBATE TECHNIQUE FOR TEACHING Akhmad Rizaldi Rasyid Islamic University Of Kalimantan rizaldirasyid03@gmail.com Iwan Perdana Islamic University Of Kalimantan Angga Taufan Dayu Islamic University Of Kalimantan ABSTRACT 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. Keyword: Teaching Speaking, Debate.INTRODUCTION Practice English in communication need to know the knowledge of the language. For most language learners, being fluent in mastering a language is one of the criteria to be called as a successful learner. In this globalization era in which communication plays an important role, speaking is one of the important English skills that should be mastered. For this reason, it should be considered by people to prepare themselves to study English earlier. Because of this we need to learn English seriously to have many experiences especially in international level. Speaking is the active or productive skill Widdowson (1984:58). According to Clark and Clark (1977:233) speaking is fundamentally an instrumental act. Based on the two definitions above, we can say that speaking is a communication between two or more people. The important think of speaking activity is the people who interact can understand each other. In this language there are four skills that must be mastered by the students. There are speaking, listening, writing and reading. In this research the researcher will be focus on speaking because speaking is one of the important skills in English language. In fact, speaking is not an easy skill to be mastered. Even most of the university students are unable to speak English well although they have learned the language for at least four years. This may be caused by many internal and external factors, the internal factors such as fear of making mistakes and shyness (Fanny Septya Christy, 2008) the external factors such as lack of environment to practice English inside and outside classrooms. Since most of students rarely use English outside the class, and also cause the technique that used by the teacher in teaching speaking is monotone. This monotonous teaching technique can make the students feel bored and make them lose their curiosity in learning speaking. A research by Carna Wiwitanto (2201464578) Languages and Arts Faculty Semarang State University in his study “The use of Australian parliamentary debate system as an English interactive program based on disciplined eclecticism approach to implement KTSP in teaching speaking (an action research of the year eleven of science program of senior high school 11 Semarang in academic year 2009/2010)”. He concluded that debate which is applied to teach students class XI students of senior high school was an effective technique. It could encourage the students to explore their knowledge as well as to speak and it was proven by the statistical result analysis of pre and post-test that by using debate to teach speaking could improve the Students’ speaking skill. The T – test result (13.64) was higher than table (1.55) at 0.05 alpha level of significant. While in this research the researcher has used the British parliamentary system, and the researcher done the research in University. During studying in Islamic University of Kalimantan from the first semester till now, the researcher finds many students can’t speak fluently cause of some problem, such as lack of vocabulary, doesn’t have self-confident and lack of opportunity to practice their English. After clasifying the problem, the researcher try to find the solution. Based on the researcher experience as a debater, with joining an English debate club or anything related to the debate activities, students would produce better speech and can build their critical thinking in discussion to stand their arguments or against the opponent. Through classrooom debate, students will practice to organize their speech including their comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar around problems and solutions, causes and results, and similarities and differences. METHOD Research Design and Setting