Argumentative Speak Ability in Oral Assessment for Students In Indonesian Language Education Study Profgram at Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto 2010

Abstract

The phenomenon that occurs among PBSI college student is that there are many students who are not skilled at speaking argumentatively. There are four abilities that must be done by someone so that the conversation s him argumentative, namely the ability to make opinions, compose evidence, reason, and be convincing. The problem that then arises in relation to the ability of students to speak argumentatively is how is the ability of students in (1) making of opinions ?, (2) compiling evidence ?, (3) doing reasoning ?, and (4) convincing? on the oral assessment. This research uses a qualitative approach. The instrument used to determine argumentative speaking ability is the observation sheet. Observations were carried out by three lecturers namely researchers and two other lecturers. The situation chosen is an oral assessment situation because it is more formal and natural. Data analysis was done by evaluative descriptive techniques and mixing analysis. The results of the study showed that in general the argumentative speaking abilities of college students on oral assessment were quite good with a value of 6.05. This value is obtained from the average value of the ability to make opinions 6.52, the value of the ability to compile evidence 5.76, the value of reasoning ability 6.15, and the value of convincing abilities 5.78. Based on the results of this study, it is recommended that the learning program should better emphasize argumentative communicative aspects with improvements in all aspects of argumentative speaking.