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English Debate
Objectives
Through this section you will learn the basic thing of parliamentary English debate and able to perform debating relate today's issue.
Learn about it!
In Indonesia, there are many debate competitions held for senior high school students. The debate is called parliamentary debate. There are three forms of parliamentary debate: Asian parliamentary, Australian parliamentary and British parliamentary debate. In this session, we are going to focus on the most commonly used form in Indonesia; Asian parliamentary debate. Unlike the debate that we have just listened, parliamentary debate has some rules.
- The topic that’s going to be debated is called motion.
- There will be two teams in a debate: government/affirmative team (supporting the motion) and opposition/negative team (opposing the motion).
- Each team consists of three speakers. There are first, second, and third speakers. There is also a reply speaker whose roles can be taken by the first or second speaker.
- The first/second/third speaker has seven minutes to deliver their speech, while a reply speaker has four minutes. Additional 20 seconds are given if speakers cannot finish their speech in the given time.
- The turn in the debate is: First speaker of government team > first speaker of opposition team > second speaker of government team > second speaker of opposition team > third speaker of government team > third speaker of opposition team > reply speaker of opposition team > reply speaker of government team. Note that the one giving reply speech firstly is the opposition team.
- Interruption or Point of Information (POI) can be asked to the speaker delivering speech in minute 01-06. The time to give POI is only 15 seconds.
- Content of the arguments, structures (delivery and strategy), and manner are what counts to win the debate.
To get better understanding of how a parliamentary debate runs. Let’s listen to the example of a debate. The motion of the debate is “This House Would Criminalize Parents whose Children Commit Crime”. The phrase ‘this house’ means the government. Due to the limited time, only some speakers are selected and the speech is not delivered completely.
Listen to the following recording.
Supporting arguments
Opposing arguments
Adjudicator
If you listen carefully, you will find that each speaker has their own role. Now, let’s learn about the role of each speaker.
- The roles of the first speaker of the government team are setting the debate (in terms of scope, settings, stakeholders and definition), giving the background of the debate, and delivering the supporting argument.
- The roles of the first speaker of the opposition team are giving rebuttals (responses/negations) to the first speaker’s arguments and giving arguments from the negative views.
- The roles of the second speaker of the government/opposition team are similar to the roles of the first speaker of opposition team. They should give rebuttals toward the previous speaker’s arguments and extend the debate by bringing new arguments or supporting the arguments of their previous speakers.
- The roles of the third speaker of the government/opposition team are giving rebuttals toward all previous speakers’ arguments and sum-up the debate. The third speakers should wrap the main arguments, compare them, and then show adjudicators why they deserve the upper hand.
- The roles of the reply speakers of both teams generally are similar to the role of the third speaker. However, a reply speaker is not allowed to give new responses or rebuttals.
1. The house believes that technology would replace the conventional teacher.
2. The house believes that full-days school would improve the quality of education in Indonesia.
3. The house believes that UAE's economy would collapse without supported by Abu Dhabi oil reserves.
Let look with this example
The presence of technology in the classroom has become more and more apparent and offers students tremendous resources with which to supplement their education. Given time, technology will completely replace the conventional teachers in the classroom. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
THE SCHEME OF DEBATINGTHE FIRST SPEAKER OF GOVERNMENT TEAM
Today, technology has become more and more apparent and offers the students tremendous resources in the teaching-learning process. We can find a lot of information by using technology such as computerize in education which supported by the internet. It is agreed that technology will replace conventional teachers. It is proven by students could study any kind of lesson without teachers. As an example, there some universities like XXXX University offer a long-distance class for their students. The qualities are as good as conventional ones. By this reason, It is clear that why we support this motion.
THE FIRST SPEAKER OF OPPOSITION TEAM
I oppose the statement which said students could study any kind of lesson without teachers. It would be impossible for technology in accommodating all different learning style of students. Teachers accommodate this by some technique in teaching. They can replace their approaching or technique in teaching when the students feel difficulties in understanding the topic given. As an example, when students are having trouble in memorizing the irregular verb in English, the teacher can use the game strategy in teaching or the other fun technique. Computerize cannot paraphrase the topic given or changing the approach and the technique in learning the topic of the classroom. Technology cannot replace conventional teachers in teaching and learning.
THE SECOND SPEAKER OF GOVERNMENT TEAM
E-learning offers the students tremendous fun media for many of different style of learning whether auditory, visual, or kinesthetic. You can find this media through Youtube, Learning Management System, Searching engine . It is such a fascinating learning experience that encourage students to study more. xxx to be continue xxx
SECOND SPEAKER OF OPPOSITION TEAM
Learning not only for fun and transfer knowledge but also for teaching-learning process is for bold attitude and moral value. Teachers in teaching not only transfer knowledge and train the students' skill but also improve students’ attitude such as discipline and moral value. As an example, Teacher could give the reward or punishment to the students. When student made mistake like not making homework, she/he is given punishment to make her/him more discipline. Computerize in education cannot do the reward and punishment approaching in which believed that improve the students quality on their attitude.Technology cannot replace the conventional teachers.
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THIRD SPEAKER OF OPPOSITION TEAM
The presence of technology in education is very essential because it can be knowledge resources to fulfill the students need. However, Technology in the form of Computerize or others in education cannot replace the existence of the teachers in the classroom. Such the above explanation, teachers can cater the students need and give moral value and discipline but not for the technology. It is recommended that technology and teachers are two aspects that cannot be separated. Teachers use technology as media in teaching and learning to improve students’ quality in education.
REPLAY SPEAKER OF OPPOSITION TEAM
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REPLAY SPEAKER OF GOVERNMENT TEAM
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Jawablah pertanyaan-pertanyaan berikut dengan jujur dan bertanggungjawab!
| No. | Pertanyaan | Jawaban | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01. | Saya mengetahui arti kata-kata pada pada teks di atas |
Ya | Tidak |
| 02. | Saya bisa mengucapkan kata-kata sesuai dengan audio/video yang disajikan |
Ya | Tidak |
| 03. | Saya bisa memperagakan percakapan dengan membaca teks yang tersedia |
Ya | Tidak |
| 04. | Saya bisa memperagakan percakapan dengan sedikit membaca teks |
Ya | Tidak |
| 05. | Saya bisa memperagakan tanpa membaca teks |
Ya | Tidak |
| 06. | Saya bisa memperagakan tanpa membaca teks disertai dengan variasi baru atau pengembangan teks |
Ya | Tidak |
| 07. | Saya bisa membuat karya video terkait dengan percakapan yang diperagakan |
Ya | Tidak |
| 08. | Saya bisa membuat video dan telah disosialisasikan pada sosial media yang saya miliki |
Ya | Tidak |
Bila ada jawaban "Tidak", maka segera lakukan review pembelajaran, terutama pada bagian yang masih "Tidak".
Bila semua jawaban "Ya", maka Anda dapat melanjutkan ke pembelajaran berikutnya.
Buatlah jurnal harian untuk membantumu dalam mempercepat proses pembelajaran dengan menjawab soal evaluasi diri berikut ini.
- Apakah yang kamu telah pelajari pada bagian ini?
- Apa yang menarik pada sesi ini?
- Apa kendala yang kamu alami?
- Apa yang kamu lakukan untuk mengatasi kendala tersebut?
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