A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE FEATURES OF BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE IN CENTRAL JAVA NUDC 2016
Daftar Isi:
- English debate is one of the most prestigious English competitions in Indonesia. Winning an English debate competition is not easy. The debaters should be able to provide strong arguments and convince the judges by fluently delivering the speech as a good manner. The purposes of this study are to find out the performance features used on the final round debate of NUDC Regional Java 2016, to investigate how often performance features occurred, and to discover the significance of performance features on the debate. The data were taken by recording a final debate round which was split into 8 videos, 7.20 seconds for each video. The number of participants was 8 debaters from different universities. To collect the data, the researcher transcribed all videos and analyzed the performance features (Filled Pauses, Repetitions, False Starts and Backtrackings, and Incomplete Utterances). The researcher used qualitative method and quantified the qualitative data to obtain the findings. As the results, the researcher found that Filled pauses are the most frequently used among the other features which occur 240 times or 49.3% and performance features do not contribute towards a better quality of the debate and improve debater‟s proficiency and fluency because the winner in the debate competition is the one who is fluent, able to convince the judges, and their viewpoints too.