Teachers as Facilitators in Conducting Class Debates
Teachers as Facilitators in Conducting Class Debates

Summary/Abstract: Business English places much emphasis on the need to develop the skills for using the language learned, and consequently many courses focus on such areas as meetings, presentations, and negotiations. Organising and conducting class debates belong to the same area and my concern here is what attitude we should adopt and what methods should prevail in this type of activity as opposed to others. Just like meetings and negotiations, class debates involve a lot of talking and my question is how deeply we should become involved in a debate and consider ourselves part of it and to what extent we should just remain teachers. What is our position: a teacher, leader, facilitator, witness? Or should we embody all of them together?

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