Boru Simanjuntak

A. Content
I. Australia-Asia style debates consist of: two teams who debate over an issue, more commonly called a topic or proposition.

-The issue, by convention, is presented in the form of an affirmative statement beginning with “That”, for example, “That cats are better than dogs,” or “This House,” for example “This House would establish a world government.”

-The subject of topics varies from region to region. Most topics however, are usually region specific to facilitate interest by both the participants and their audiences.

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Teaching Debate to ESL Students: A Six-Class Unit
Daniel Krieger
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Siebold University of Nagasaki (Nagasaki, Japan)

Introduction

Debate is an excellent activity for language learning because it engages students in a variety of cognitive and linguistic ways. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate upon this point by providing a step-by-step guide that will give teachers everything they need to know for conducting debate in an English class.

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