Teaching Advanced Language Skills through Global Debate: Theory and Practice

by Tony Brown and Jennifer Bown

Using debate to develop advanced competency in a second language is a method that is finding increased interest among instructors and students alike, whether in synchronous online teaching or the individual classroom. Through debate, students learn how to make hypotheses, support their conclusions with evidence, and deploy the rhetoric of persuasion in the target language. Though this method provides an exciting pedagogy for moving students from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626164304
• ISBN13: 9781626164307
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 105 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher