2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

English Debate Program as Cross-Cultural Communication Training

Research Project

Project/Area Number	15520370
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Foreign language education
Research Institution	Tsuda College
Principal Investigator	SUZUKI Takeshi Tsuda College, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Associate Professor, 学芸学部, 助教授 (40226527)
Project Period (FY)	2003 – 2004
Keywords	debate / English / Cross-Cultural Communication / performance / critical thinking
Research Abstract	(1) Seminar on "Debate as Cross-Cultural Communication Training" recturer : Prof. Shigeru Matsumoto (Tokai University) Aug. 11, 2003 at Tsuda College, Tokyo (2) Publication, "Baktin's Theory of Argumentatire Performance : Critical Thinking Education in Japan" in the Proceedings of the 5th conference of the International Society for the study of Argumentation 2003, pp. 989-993. (3) Seminor on "Debate as Cross-cultural Communication" Rsolition used : Should the Japanese Government obligate every male full-time worker with a newli-born child to take care teave? Lecturer : Colden Mitchell(U. of Pittsburgh), Bernardo Attias(California State U, Northtidge) and Brian Lain(U. of North Texas) (4) Presentation, "Beyond The Daily Me : Argumentation in an age of Enclave Deliberation" published in the Proceedings of the 2nd Tokyo Conference on Argumentation, 2004.

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