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Iberri-Shea, Gina – English Teaching Forum, 2009
The purpose of this article is to provide suggestions for using public speaking tasks in English language teaching (ELT) and to highlight some of their many advantages. For the purpose of this article, the author will focus on two types of these tasks: student presentations and debates. Student presentations may consist of either individual or…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Learning Activities, Problem Sets, English Instruction
Marlin, John – 1990
Debaters have several poor word-choice and word-formation habits that detract from their ethos as advocates as well as from the clarity of their arguments. In many instances, debaters, to their competitive and educational detriment, employ habitual phrases, questionable redefinitions, and poorly coined new words. Many currently popular debate…
Descriptors: Debate, Higher Education, Jargon, Language Usage