THE LANDSCAPE OF COMPETITIVE DEBATE IN ACEH

This Study aims to to investigasi the landscape of competitive debate among the universities in Aceh. This instrumens were questionnaire, interview, and the document analysis. The research subject of the study were the debaters in several universities in Aceh which were randomly chosen to avoid the subjectivity of the result of the study. Based on the result, the researcher can concluded that: firstly, the achievement rate of the competitive debate in Aceh private universities was low. The conclusion was taken from the discussion process of the questionnaire, interview , and the LLDIKTI's record. There was a high coherency of result between the interview and questionnaire showing that the achievement rate was low. The result was also strengthened by the LLDIKTI's document about the result of National University Debating Championship (NUDC)2021. Secondly, the participation rate was also low. The result of interview and questionnaire showed that the number of debaters who often participate in competitive debate was very low. There was no one of debaters that has ever participated in more than 4 debate competitions. Moreover, the majority of the debatersparticipatedinlessthan3debatecompetition.TheLLDIKTI'srecord used by the writer also became the amplification of the validity of the result. The three of data sources indicated the coherency. Hence, the rate of participation in the competitive debate among the debaters of Aceh private universities was still severely low,too. Thirdly, according the survey and interview, the researcher concluded that the rate of debaters' interest in debate among the Aceh private universities was stable. The result was a little higher than the rate of participation and achievement. However, the debaters interest still needs to be increased. The result of the interview regarding the excitement rate was high while the result of questionnaire regarding the implementation of the interest was not too low and not too high, too. Finally, the rate of the support system was the highest rate of the competitive debate landscape in Aceh private universities. The result between the questionnaire and the interview about the rate of support system was greatly higher. It means that the result was reliable. The researcher found the coherency between the questionnaire and the interview result.