It’s Not About Being Right: Developing Argument Through Debate

Malloy, Jacquelynn A.; Tracy, Kelly N.; Scales, Roya Q.; Menickelli, Kristin; Scales, W. David

doi:10.1177/1086296x19896495

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“…The opinion tasks in the current study consisted of different accessible topics (e.g. smoking should be banned) (see Malloy et al, 2020). These topics were randomly assigned to students.…”

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Debate as a pedagogical tool for developing speaking skills in second language education

Majidi

Graaff

Janssen

2021

Language Teaching Research

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Many secondary school students’ second language (L2) speaking skills suffer from deficiencies; the effects thereof are detrimental to their academic and career opportunities in a globalized world that highlights the importance of oral communication skills. Debate has been considered a potentially effective speaking pedagogical tool that can scaffold learning processes in ways that can lead to language development. This study investigates the effect of a debate intervention on English L2 speaking competence of Dutch secondary school students. Following a pretest–posttest control group design, we elicited speech samples from opinion tasks which we coded in terms of measures of speech quantity, fluency, complexity, accuracy and cohesion. Multilevel analysis results indicate that after the intervention, the intervention group produced more language which was more fluent, accurate, coherent and lexically more sophisticated relative to the control group. These findings, which have significant implications for L2 speaking development, are discussed in relation to specific characteristics of L2 debate pedagogy.

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“…The opinion tasks in the current study consisted of different accessible topics (e.g. smoking should be banned) (see Malloy et al, 2020). These topics were randomly assigned to students.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Debate as a pedagogical tool for developing speaking skills in second language education

Majidi

Graaff

Janssen

2021

Language Teaching Research

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“…To confirm the hypothesis about the role of argumentation in diversifying the conceptual content of popular science discourse about tourism, argumentation discourse analysis methods were used. We drew upon the following studies to build the methodological basis of argumentation discourse analysis: (Candarli, 2018;Gigante, 2017;Kolbel, Jentges, 2017;Lawrence, Sherry, 2021;Mallow et al, 2020;Mansouri et al, 2017;Westby, 2018).…”

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A Course in Argumentation in Journalism in the Master’s Curriculum: Using Russian Popular Science Magazines as Case Studies

2022

Media Education (Mediaobrazovanie)

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At the end of the twentieth century, the mission of the discursive practice of popular science magazines was to draw public attention to environmental issues. The peak of interest in ecology fell on this period: environmental problems in Russia occupied the front pages of newspapers and magazines and featured widely on radio and television. By the mid-2000s, the level of interest in environmental issues had decreased markedly. Environmental issues in popular science magazines gave way to entertainment. Today, many environmental magazines provide tourist information in the format of creolized texts about holiday destinations, a healthy lifestyle, or the life of celebrities. Arguments calling for the preservation of the environment and sustainable lifestyles have been replaced by arguments calling for a life of enjoyment. This paper discusses the concept of a master degree course in argumentation in journalism as illustrated by the evolution of environmental argumentation in the popular science magazine, Vokrug Sveta.

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“…Classification scheme for identifying children's mathematical writing (Kosko & Zimmerman 2019) Developing argumentative agency and critical argumentative literacy in history (Malloy et al 2020)…”

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Scoping the field of literacy research: how might a range of research be valuable to primary teachers?

Burnett¹

2022

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Literacy research has an important role to play in helping to shape educational policy and practice. The field of literacy research however is difficult to navigate as literacy has been understood and researched in many different ways. It encompasses work from psychology, sociology, philosophy and neuroscience, literary theory, media and literacy studies, and methodologies include a range of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches. In mapping this complex field, I draw on a systematic ‘scoping survey’ of a sample of peerreviewed articles featuring literacy research relevant to literacy education for children aged 5-11. Studies were deemed relevant if they: addressed literacy pedagogies and interventions; and/or provided pertinent insights (e.g. into children’s experiences of literacy); and/or offered implications for the range and scope of literacy education. The results of this survey are important in two ways. Firstly they help to articulate the range of literacy research and the varied ways that such research might speak to literacy education. Secondly they challenge easy distinctions between paradigms in literacy research. Recognising this complexity and heterogeneity matters given the history of relationships between literacy policy and practice in countries such as England, where polarised debate has often erased the subtle differences of perspective and confluence of interest that this survey illuminates. Based on the results of this survey I argue that an inclusive approach to literacy research is needed in educational contexts. Otherwise alternative and/or complementary ways of supporting children’s literacy learning may be missed, as will important possibilities for literacy education and children’s current and future lives.

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It’s Not About Being Right: Developing Argument Through Debate

Cited by 18 publications

References 20 publications

Debate as a pedagogical tool for developing speaking skills in second language education

Debate as a pedagogical tool for developing speaking skills in second language education

A Course in Argumentation in Journalism in the Master’s Curriculum: Using Russian Popular Science Magazines as Case Studies

Scoping the field of literacy research: how might a range of research be valuable to primary teachers?

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