TABLE OF CONTENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABSTRACT Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION........................................................... ..........……………1 Chapter 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 1. Definition of debate...................................................... ............................…………….2 2. Benefits of debate....................................................... ..............................…………….4 3. Teachers’ role in classroom debate.................................................... ........…………….6 4. Relationship between cultural values and academic debate......................…………….10
Chapter 3: METHODOLOGY 1. Subject.............................................................................. ........................……….........13 2. Data collection 2.1 Questionnaire.............................................................................. ...…………….13 2.2 Interview..................................................................................... ...……………..14 3. Data analysis.............................................................. ................................……………..14 Chapter 4: RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS I. Students’ attitude to classroom debate ................................ ................……………. 15 II. How popular is classroom debate in fact?...........................................……………..18 III. The culture values and classroom debate ....................................... .....……………. 23 IV. Teachers’ participation in classroom debate ........................................ ……………..31
V. Some suggestions to motivate Vietnamese students to debate in class ………………33
Chapter 6: CONCLUSION 1.Summarizing the content........................................................ ....................……………….36 2.Implications............................................................................... .................……………….37 3.Limitations of the current study........................................................ ..........……………….37 4.Recommendations for further works.......................... ................................……………….38
References…………………………………………………………………………….............39 Appendix………………………………………………………………………………………41
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, a special thank to my supervisor, TRẦN QUANG NGỌC THÚY, who provided innumerable suggestions, comments and ideas. And it would be a serious insufficiency unless I remember to thank my old teacher, LÊ MINH BẢO, for comments on an earlier draft. I would like to express my profound to all American and Vietnamese students whose cooperation is very helpful to my study. Eventually, my special thanks go to my family and friends for their material support, as well as encouraging me to do this piece of research.
ABSTRACT The purpose of the present research is to determine students’ debating in America and Vietnam. Hence, after collecting necessary information of debate in two cultures, the research focused on solving some problems. In the first part, the research begins by introducing some overall features of debate through recent researches of debate. The second part of the study provided a literature review of debate through an analysis some relating researches such as definition of debate, benefits of debate, teachers’ role in classroom debate, and the relationship between cultural values and academic debate. The study, in the third part, gave the methods used to complete it. The third part of the study analyzed the data collected from questionnaire and interviews according to some areas such as students’ attitude to classroom debate, how popular is classroom debate in fact, the culture values and classroom debate, teachers’ participation in classroom debate and some suggestions to motivate Vietnamese students to debate in class. Especially, the culture values and classroom debate are attentively focused on analyzing and giving some couples of converse cultural dimension between Vietnamese and American culture. In the last part of the study, a conclusion of content and finding are summarized beside some the research’s implication, significance, limitation and some recommendations for further works.