ENGAGING DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE

IN IMPROVING JUNIORS’ SPEAKING

SKILL
Presented by:
M. Izwan Furqon
Tri Puji Lestari
 CONCLUSIONS & SUGGESTION

FINDINGS & DISCUSSION

METHOD
REVIEW OF RELATED
LITERATURE

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

PREVIOUS STUDIES

INTRODUCTION

THE OUTLINE OF THE PRESENTATION:

INTRODUCTION
At the time of globalization, English is used as the medium to exchange the
information in all activities such as in the politic, business, education,
science, and so forth. Thus, English has been regarded as the international
language, and it is learned and taught all over the world.
However, many people assume that learning English particularly speaking
is difficult. the innovation and creativity in teaching speaking are required
in order to assist the students in improving their speaking skill. This can
be realized by implementing the proper technique in teaching process,
one of teaching techniques that can be implemented is discussion
technique.
 PREVIOUS STUDIES

Rahman et al., (2011), entitled “Impact of Discussion

Method on Students Performance.” 1
2 Menggo et al., (2013), entitled “The Effect of Discussion Technique
and English Learning Motivation toward Students’ Speaking Ability”

Oradee (2012), entitled “Developing Speaking Skills Using Three

Communicative Activities (Discussion, Problem-Solving, and Role-
Playing).” 3
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. How can the use of group discussion technique give the
significant effect in improving juniors’ speaking skill?
2. To what extend does group discussion improve juniors’
speaking skill?
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Defining discussion technique
Discussion technique is a technique gives the student a chance to
show and improve their critical thinking, speaking and attitude by
giving opinions in a discussion forum (Menggo, et al., 2013;
Raheem, 2011).
Defining speaking
Speaking refers to an oral communication which is expressed by
someone to interact or communicate with others and also to
transfer the information or some ideas to other people directly.
Besides, speaking is not only expressed by people to communicate,
but also as the way for someone to express their feeling (Argawati,
2014; Furqon and Putriyantina, 2015).
METHOD
Research Design :
Case study as suggested by Yin (2003, p. 15)

Participants and Research Site :

Junior level in English education program, Faculty of Teacher Training and
Educational Sciences, Galuh University

Data Collection Procedure :

The data were gained by conducting the observation and interview to 10 Juniors
as the participants.
Data Analysis :
The writers analyzed the data from the results of the observation and the
interview session qualitatively.
 FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
10 students were interviewed as the representative of the class, it was
found that the students were familiar with discussion technique, and most
of them had ever applied this technique in learning speaking.
It provided the amount of chance for students to express their feelings,
ideas and opinion freely without feeling nervous or apprehension.
Some students’ responses
A. Students are familiar with discussion technique
• “I know discussion technique, and I usually used it with my friends either in
the class or beyond”
• “My friend and I used to discuss the materials for all lectures, I think, this is
categorized as discussion technique”
B. Discussion technique provides the amount of chance to express ideas
• “I can speak freely without feeling afraid of making mistakes because my
friends will give the correction if I do that”
• “It is totally different when you speak in front of the class compared with
you speak in your friends within a group to discuss about particular
materials”
C. Discussion technique gives positive feedback
• “I got so many new words from my partner after I learned using discussion
technique”
• “Discussing with my partner can improve my speaking skill because I can
freely express my opinion and my partner guides me too”
• “I usually get trouble when I try to speak in certain topic, but I don’t face
the difficulty during I learn with my partners by using discussion
technique”

Research question number 1:
How can the use of group
discussion technique give the
significant effect in improving
students’ speaking skill?
DISCUSSION
• Discussion technique provides the
opportunity for students in
expressing their opinion freely.
• Discussion technique makes
students actively engage in learning
process.
• Students can express their opinion
without feeling nervous or
apprehension.
• Discussion technique assists the
students in acquiring their
vocabulary mastery.
• Students become confident when
they speak English.

Research question number 2:
To what extend does discussion
technique improve juniors’
speaking skill?
Students’ speaking skill was better
than before they applied the
technique. Students can communicate
with their peer well although there are
still some errors when they expressed
their opinion whether in grammar
roles or in vocabulary mastery.
Nonetheless, basically their speaking
skill improved. It was compared with
their skill before they used discussion
technique. Thus, discussion technique
gave the significant improvement in
improving students’ speaking skill and
it can be a technique to teach speaking
too.
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
The study can be concluded that the use of discussion technique in
improving students’ speaking skill give the significant effect.
Furthermore, discussion technique also provides the opportunity for
students to express their ideas and opinion freely, and it makes students
actively communicate in learning process.

For the students who want to be able to speak English fluently have to
practice regularly and continually. Besides, to get success in mastering
English, the proper technique is not enough; they have the strong
motivation to learn English.