AN ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY IN GIVING ARGUMENT THROUGH GROUP DISCUSSION AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

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ABSTRACT The purpose of this research was to describe the third year students’ speaking ability in giving argument through group discussion at English Department of Bung Hatta University. The researcher wanted to describe the students’ ability in speaking in giving argument through group discussion at English Department of Bung Hatta University, there are 5 aspects needed to be described; they are content, vocabulary, pronunciation, fluency, and grammar. The design of this research was descriptive research. The population of this research is the third year student’s at English Department of Bung Hatta University. Total sampling was used in this research and the number of sample was 27 students. The instrument for collecting the data in this research was speaking test. The researcher used teaching-learning process to be the topic for the speaking test. The researcher also used inter-rater technique to know the reliability of the test. The coefficient correlation of the test was 0.99. The researcher found the lowest score of the student was 35 and the highest score was 97.5. Based on Bung Hatta Criteria, it can be concluded that the highest percentage came from “very good” speaking ability. Keywords : speaking, ability, group discussion, argument