Teaching advanced language skills through global debate: theory and practice

by Brown, Tony, (Newel Anthony)

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Title Statements

Full title :Teaching advanced language skills through global debate : theory and practice / Tony Brown and Jennifer Bown.

Summary

Instructors are increasingly interested in using debate to develop advanced competency in a second language. Through debate, students learn how to make hypotheses, support their conclusions with evidence, and deploy the rhetoric of persuasion in the target language. While interest in this topic is strong, there are few materials available for instructors who wish to plan a curriculum focused on debate. This digital short provides both the theoretical argument for using debate in the foreign language classroom as well as practical advice for developing reading, listening, writing, and speaking skills through debate. It discusses task-based language learning and helps instructors design debate-related tasks for the classroom. The digital short can be used by any instructor who is working at the advanced level, and it could be used in courses for future language instructors. It can also be used by instructors who adopt one of our forthcoming Mastering Languages through Global Debate textbooks.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Georgetown University Press
Place of Publication:Washington, DC
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 95 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781626164307, 1626164304
oclc:on1021054963
LC Classification:P53.4
Dewey Decimal:418.0071

Subjects

debates Debates and debating Débats et controverses Langage et langues -- Étude et enseigne… Langage et langues -- Tests d'aptitude Language and languages -- -Ability test… Language and languages -- Study and tea… Language Tests Langue seconde -- Acquisition Second language acquisition