ディベート型のコミュニケーション活動への実践的アプローチ

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In the process of trial and error used to develop communicative activities which might facilitate better English learning, the authors have come to value the use of debating. Debate is one of the classroom activities that may lead students to effective communicative interaction because it requires the integration of the four language skills, and generates learner enthusiasm to take on a number of communicative challenges. This paper explores a practical approach to teaching debate as a communicative activity. We specifically examine three of the major problems that have prevented the incorporation of the teaching of debate in ELT in Japan. These are (1) having to master the rules which appear to be unique to debate, (2) the apparent difficulties of debate, and (3) the underlying Japanese mentality against debate-type argumentation. Our sustainable solution to these three problems is to adopt debate-oriented communicative activities in accordance with lesson objectives and to lower the degree of formality in these activities. We suggest a methodology which makes use of small communicative debating tasks in addition to full formal debating.
全国英語教育学会の論文