One way to improve speaking skill is through debate. Debate is a very
important and effective strategy in developing speaking skill of learners. For the
reasons, debate is the perfect choice to create a good speaker.
This research focus on how the process of the online English debate
learning that conducted by the coaches of LiDS Educia organization. Furthermore,
this research also focused to investigate on the challenges that faced by the
coaches of LiDS Educia while conducting English debate through online learning.
This research conducted using descriptive qualitative method by appllying
observation where the researcher joint the learning process and observed how the
learning went. Then, the researcher also used interview in order to get deeper data.
The last, the researcher used documentation as the addition techniques to get the
data.
The results showed that online English debate learning at LiDS Educia
was conducted using two applications namely WhatsApp as a virtual class and
Google Meet as a virtual room for practicing English debate. The learning has
three stages namely debate preparation, debate lesson and debate practice. In
addition, the study also investigated the challenges faced by LiDS Educia coaches
while conducting the online English debate learning. The challenges are the
capacity of the coaches, the members’ commitment, the lack of the material, the
internet access, and the insufficient learning media.