Teachers’ perception on the Toward the Classroom debate activities

Speaking is one of the activities between the speakers and the listeners to get the new information. The goal of speaking skill is the students can masterall of the components of speaking such as grammar, vocabularies, pronunciation, and fluency. Besides, to reach the objectives of speaking skill, the teachersat State Islamic Senior High School used debate strategy in the teaching speaking. This research conducted to investigate teachers’ perception dealingwith advantages and challenges that faced by the teachers in classroom debate activities. The methodology of this research was qualitative research. The data gained by doing the interview with 5 English teachers at State Islamic Senior High School. This kind of the interviewused open ended questions, so that the researcher can get the data deeper. To get the validity of data, the researcher used trustworthiness data and triangulation of data. There were two results of this research. First, the teachers faced some problems while implementing classroom debate activities such as they have difficulties to speak English, lack vocabularies, low motivation to learn, and felt worried while making mistakes. Second, debate hadbenefits to teach speaking. It can improve the students’ speaking skill such as enlarge their vocabularies, build their confident, and improve their motivation. This research showed that all of the English teachers at State Islamic Senior High School agreed if classroom debate activities could help the students to improve their speaking skill.