Students’ Discourse Strategies in a Classroom Debate Performance
Abstract
Conducting a debate as one activity in a speaking class might provide opportunities for students to practice their exploratory talk as the benefits of performing this activity include developing an objectivity toward controversial questions and the ability to reason logically. In order to achieve its goals, students need to own communicative competences, which are categorized into grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence and strategic competence. This study concerns with the students’ use of discourse strategies as this shows their ability in connecting sentences or utterances to produce meaningful units of utterances. In addition, this strategy is required to deliver thought and comprehend ideas as it would require complete thought happening before and after the utterances to gain meaningful representation of the message. Therefore, the focus of this study is to find out types of discourse strategies the students employ during their debate performance in Speaking for Academic Purposes subject offered at the Department of English in a state university at East Java.
Keywords: communicative competence, discourse strategies, debate
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