How to Include Justice, Debate, and Rhetoric in EFL Classes more

Fri, Apr 29, 09:00-Tue, May 31, 23:55 Asia/Seoul

The EFL classroom is a great place for students to ask and answer important questions and develop their language while doing so. The question is how can a teacher facilitate this? In this pecha kucha, the presenter will offer some handy guidelines based on his own experiences. These include how to frame important questions for students (justice), how to get them engaged with those questions (debate), and how they can be taught to argue more persuasively (rhetoric). This presentation includes an overview of the concept of justice (taken from “Justice” by Michael Sandel), which can inform the design of debate/discussion classes. It also includes an outline of the presenter’s preferred approach to implementing pair/small-group debates in EFL classes with minimal preparation. Finally, the presenter will suggest an accessible way to teach students to argue more convincingly based on a 3-part definition of rhetoric: ethos, logos, and pathos.