Debaters‟ ability in writing discussion text at English Education Debate Club IAIN Padangsidimpuan periode 2019-2020

Hasibuan, Ernidah (2020) Debaters‟ ability in writing discussion text at English Education Debate Club IAIN Padangsidimpuan periode 2019-2020. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research was focused on debaters‟ ability in writing discussion text. Writing discussion text is a process of expressing thoughts that contains two sides of topic pro and contra with arguments for each side which causes discussion text to receive less interest because of its complexity. Writing arguments is always done in debate. Debate and discussion text are related, they are only different in term of delivering the arguments, debate is through speaking and discussion text is through writing. The formulation of the research were 1) How is the debaters‟ ability in writing discussion text at English Education Debate Club IAIN Padangsidimpuan Periode 2019-2020?, 2) What are the lecturer‟s effort to help students who lack of ability in writing discussion text?, 3) What are the debaters‟ effort to improve their ability in writing discussion text?. Objectives of this research are to know the debaters‟ ability in writing discussion text, to know lecturer‟s effort to help students who lack of ability in writing discussion text, and to know the debaters‟ effort to improve their ability in writing discussion text.This research is a mixed quantitative and qualitative research. The intruments used in this research were test, rubric scoring, and interview. The quantiative approach used test and rubric scoring to collect the data and the qualitative approach used interview. The population of this research were all the debaters at English education debate club IAIN Padangsidimpuan periode 2019-2020. However, the sample only consisted of sixteen debaters. Based on the result of the research, the mean score of the debaters was 71.43 in which it belonged to the high ability classification, the mode was 68.65, and the median was 70.25. The researcher tested the hypothesis using Ztest. Based on the result of the hypothesis testing, it can be concluded that the hypothesis was rejected because the Zcount was less than the Ztable (Zcount = -6.22 < 0.3264). Despite the fact that most debaters‟ ability were high, there are few of them and many other students in general who lack of ability in writing discussion text. In order to remedy the situation, the lecturer did some efforts, they were ; giving more writing practices, giving feedback on the students‟ writing and revising activity. Meanwhile, the debaters‟ effort to improve their ability in writing discussion text were ; reading more scientific journals, trying to analyze their text better, and practicing to write more.

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