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Speaking ability is one of the important skills in education and daily life, but students often face obstacles such as lack of self-confidence and minimal opportunities to practice. This study aims to improve students' speaking ability through debate and discussion-based training. This activity is designed to provide students with direct experience in constructing logical arguments, conveying opinions effectively, and interacting in formal and informal forums. The methods used include theory training, debate simulations, and group discussions with periodic evaluations through observation and questionnaires. The results showed a significant increase in students' speaking ability, especially in terms of clarity of idea delivery, argument structure, and courage to speak in public. In addition, this training also had a positive impact on students' critical thinking skills, ability to work together, and self-confidence.

. This study reveals the application of the learning model using two stay two stray by determining the main problem that becomes the focus of the study, namely the low ability of students to express opinions about the material about the intristic story through this class action research in general to improve speaking skills learning at SD Inpress Bontomanai and specifically aims to improve students' speaking skills in class V students of SD Inpress Bontomanai Tamalate District Makassar City. The purpose of this study was to determine the improvement of speaking skills using TWO STAY TWO STRAY in Indonesian Language Learning for Class V Students of SD Inpres Bontomanai.Implementation of research using Speaking Test. The type of research used, namely classroom action research (PTK) which is designed through two cycles. Each cycle lasted for 4 (four) meetings. The subjects in this study were fifth grade students of SD Inpress Bontomanai, Tamalate District, Makassar City, totaling 24 students consisting of 8 boys and 16 girls. Based on the observation data, it can be seen that students' speaking skills through Two Stay Two Stray learning have reached high criteria with an acquisition score of 90. Meanwhile, the results of the student speaking skills test in cycle II show that the average value of speaking skills of grade V students is 83.33%. The test scores of students' speaking skills in cycle II consisted of 4 students who were not yet complete (16.66%), while students who had reached learning completeness were 20 students (83.33%).

Assessing speaking ability is a complex task, more difficult than assessing listening, reading, or writing abilities. This is because what is said when speaking is quickly forgotten, so evaluation requires sufficient time to pay attention to the speaking process, not just knowledge of the material being discussed. To carry out this evaluation, the research method generally used is a review of related literature. This research involves collecting information related to a specific topic. In order for a speaking ability evaluation to be carried out successfully, it is necessary to properly understand the basic concepts, learning processes, evaluation techniques, as well as planning and implementation procedures.