DEBATING MADE EASYA good debater can debate both sides.By Alfred A. Dizon, Jr.INTRODUCTION:Debate is an excellent activity for language learning because it engages students in avarietyof cognitiveandlinguisticways. Withpractice, manystudentsshowobviousprogress in their ability to express and defend ideas in debate and they often quicklyrecognize the flaws in each others arguments, oh, and yeah, its fun !o what is debate" #isbett $%&&'( said that it is a kind of contest where you mustsupport your argument and refute your opponents argument with logical reasoning andrebuttals by giving facts and evidence. )rom that premise alone, *d say that debate canbehadin many ways,theobvious would beoral whereas debates can also behadthrough written.*n a debate class, whether it is a one+on+one or group activity, what the studentneedstolearnisnot reallythekindof debatethat theywill beenteringintoortheprocedure they will follow if they ever get involved in a debate contest, and not even ,ustmerely how to answer questions or give ideas. What is essential in a debate class is forthe student to know how to logically provide complete and strong arguments,destructive questions that will make the opposing teamfalter, and develop highcognitiveattentiveandlisteningskills-thepurposeof whichistogeneratewinningquestions during cross+examinations or interpolations and convincing rebuttals tocounter each and every single argument the opposing team may ever give during thedebate.ADJ 2015 Page 1LISTENING READING AND WRITING THINKINGTHE DEBATE CLASSAN OVERVIEW:*n all encompassing, the student needs to make the .best case/ out of the position thathe0she may be given in a debate class. )urther, * would like to stress that during thedebate class, compliance to the argumentation patterns that will be discussed later is amust. 1he figure below shows the essential skills to be developed in a debate class.ADJ 2015 Page 2LET USDEBATE!2s shown from the figure above, the ability to improve reading, writing, listeningskills3 enhancement of argumentation skills3 experience in persuasive writing andspeaking3++all theseare important skills the4!5 studentwill experienceduringthedebate class.ADJ 2015 Page 3MECHANICS:2s mentioned inthe introduction, no format is required in adebateclass.6owever, to have a uniformone+on+one debateclass, * picked out theessentialproceduresfroma7arliamentary 1ypedebateandmergedit intoa5incoln+DouglasDebate type. 1he mechanics are as follows899999999999999999999999*#1:;D