Correlative Study Between Students’ Achievement in English Debate and Their Argumentative Essay Achievement of the 4th Students of IAIN Tulungagung

Restiana, Riastanti (2014) Correlative Study Between Students’ Achievement in English Debate and Their Argumentative Essay Achievement of the 4th Students of IAIN Tulungagung. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Keyword: debate, argumentative essay, correlation This research concern so much on the discussion regarding argumentation. Argumentation can be done actually through many ways; it can be done in form of either spoken or written one. Spoken argumentation might be done through an activity what so called as debate. Debate gives one an opportunity to enhance many skills in language learning mainly in the way the speaker think critically by delivering some blocks of arguments. Meanwhile, written argumentation can be reached through a certain writing essay, particularly, by working with argumentative essay. This research also importanly discussed the similarities between debate and argumentative essay. There were three research problems questioned in this research covering 1) How is the students’ achievement in writing argumentative essay? 2) How is the students’ achievement in debate? And 3) To what extent does students’ achievement in debate correlate to their achievement in writing argumentative esssay? Meanwhile, the aims of this research were 1) To find out students’ achievement in writing argumentative essay, 2) To find out students’ achievement in debate activity, and 3) To know the correlation between students’ debate achievement ad their achivement in writing argumentative essay. In this research, the reseacher conducted a quantitative study by applying the correlative study aimed at knowing if debate achievement correlates with argumentative essay achievement. This research pointed 50 sampled to be engaged in this research taken from the population of the 4th semester students of English Department who were taking debate class and writing argumentative class. In debate activity, the students were asked to have debate activity in front of the class. Then, the reseacher gave them the score toward their ability in debate. The scores of debate was generally divided into three terms known as matter, manner, and method. Each of them was also divided into some sub-criteria which ranged 1 up to 5 point for each. After, the score of debate were sompletely collected, the similar students involved in debate were also asked to make an argumentative essay with accompanied by the topics that had been provided by the researcher. Then, the scores of the writing product were taken by using the writing scoring guide. The criteria set up the rubric consisted of four criteria and ranged from 1 up to 6 point. Scores of both tests were automatically in the form of number and were processed by using SPSS 16.0 programme in order to find out the correlation. vii The correlation value is indicated by the “r” value or the correlation coefficience. “r” value appeared from the computation calculation done by SPSS 16.0 showed 0,134. This result, then, indicates that the correlation between students’ debate achievement and their writing in argumentative essay is in a very low correlation. Meanwhile, the significance of the correlation is found out by comparing the “r-count” and “rt”. In point of fact, the “r-count” (0,352) is higher than the “rt” showing (0,279) in the level 5% and 1% (0,361) for df (degree of freedom) = 48. Since the value of “r-count” is higher than “r-table”, the correlation is not significant. In sum, this result takes a conclusion that the H1 is rejected; in contrast, the Null Hypothesis (H0) stated that there is no possitive correlation between students’ achievement in debate and their achievement in writing argumentative essay is accepted.

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