A Report on the Development of Teaching Audience-Appropriate English Speeches in a Collaborative Task-Based Framework

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This is a report on the development of a collaborative task-based syllabus in a third-year (English) Language Communication class at a public university in Japan over the course of four consecutive semesters. The aim of this paper is to provide an examination into the methods implemented and adapted in a syllabus concerning audience-appropriate speeches in English. The author/instructor, over the course of four semesters, made incremental changes to the syllabus and class format while maintaining the speech-centered content. Teacher and student responses from each implementation are reviewed, and the motivation and method for the final collaborative task-based syllabus design are discussed.