Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Deputy Ministry for Teachers Colleges
English Departments
Course Outline
Course Title:
Debate & discussion2
Course Code:
Eng 215
Number of Credit Hours: 4 hours
Required Text: Lubetsky, M., LeBeau, C., & Harrington, D. (2000). Discover Debate: Basic Skills
for Supporting and refuting Opinions. California: Language Solutions Incorporated.
Instructor: Omar Osman Jabak
E-mail: jabak73@yahoo.com , ojabak@ksu.edu.sa
I- Course Description:
This course aims at helping English students develop their spoken English skills with an
emphasis on debating and discussion dynamics. It caters for promoting their skills to outline various
topics for oral discussion and debating, develop and organize their ideas. It also trains them in working
cooperatively with each other and in supporting their arguments and discussions with some evidence
exposing fallacies. This course, together with Debate and Discussion 1 means to enhance English
stuxdnets' oral fluency and persuasiveness.
IV-Calendar, Course Contents and Assignment Specifications:
Time
First week
Topic
Assignments
First session:
 Introduction to the course.
 Topic outlining
 Generation of ideas
 organization
Second session:
 An oral debate and discussion of a
topic
Second
week
Students are to:
1. generate relevant ideas.
2. organize them.
3. perform orally as two debating teams:
affirmative and negative
Students are to:
First session:
1. generate relevant ideas.
 Constructive speeches.
2. organize them.
Second session:
 An oral debate and discussion of 3. practice making constructive speeches.
4. perform orally as two debating teams:
the topic of a topic.
affirmative and negative
1
Third week
Students are to:
First session:
1. generate relevant ideas.
 Rebuttal speeches.
2. organize them.
Second session:
3. practice making Rebuttal speeches.
 An oral debate and discussion of a
4. perform orally as two debating teams:
certain topic.
affirmative and negative.
Fourth
week
Fifth week
Sixth week
First session:
 Rebuttal speeches
Second session:
 An oral debate and discussion of a
certain topic to agreed on in class.
Students are to:
1. generate relevant ideas.
2. organize them.
3. practice making rebuttal speeches.
perform orally as two debating teams:
affirmative and negative
Students are to:
First session:
Techniques of exposing fallacies.
1. generate relevant ideas.
2. organize them.
Second session:
 An oral debate and discussion of a 3. practice techniques of exposing fallacies.
4. perform orally as two debating teams:
certain topic.
affirmative and negative
Students are to:
First session:
 The deductive technique of 1. generate relevant ideas.
2. organize them.
conviction.
practice the deductive technique of
Second session:
conviction perform orally as two debating
 An oral debate and discussion of a
teams: affirmative and negative
certain topic.
Seventh
week
First session:
 The inductive technique of
conviction.
Second session:
 An oral debate and discussion of a
certain topic.
Students are to:
1. generate relevant ideas.
2. organize them.
3. practice the inductive technique of
conviction
4. perform orally as two debating teams:
affirmative and negative.
Eighth
week
First session:
 Midterm oral exam
Second session:
 Midterm oral exam
Each student is to contribute to a debate topic
with a partner on either the affirmative or
negative team.
Ninth
week
First session:
 Deductive and inductive techniques
of conviction.
Second session:
 An oral debate and discussion of a
certain topic to be agreed on in
class.
First session:
 Analogy technique of conviction.
Students are to:
1. generate relevant ideas.
2. organize them.
3. practice deductive and inductive techniques
of conviction.
4. perform orally as two debating teams:
affirmative and negative.
Students are to:
1. generate relevant ideas.
2
Tenth week
Eleventh
week
Twelfth
week
Thirteenth
week
Fourteenth
week
Fifteenth
week
2. organize them.
Second session:
 An oral debate and discussion of a 3. practice the analogy technique of
conviction.
topic to be agreed on in class.
4. perform orally as two debating teams:
affirmative and negative.
Students are to:
First session:
1. generate relevant ideas.
 Concluding a topic.
2. organize them.
Second session:
 An oral debate and discussion of a 3. practice topic conclusion.
4. perform orally as two debating teams:
topic to be agreed on in class.
affirmative and negative.
Students are to:
First session:
 An oral debate and discussion of a 1. generate relevant ideas.
2. organize them.
topic to be agreed on in class.
3. practice the analogy technique of
 Second session:
conviction.
 An oral debate and discussion of a
4.
perform orally as two debating teams:
certain topic.
affirmative and negative
Students are to:
First session:
An oral debate and discussion of a 1. generate relevant ideas.
topic to be agreed on in class.
2. organize them.
3. practice the analogy technique of
Second session:
conviction.
 An oral debate and discussion of a
4. perform orally as two debating teams:
certain topic.
affirmative and negative
Students are to:
First session:
An oral debate and discussion of a 1. generate relevant ideas.
topic to be agreed on in class.
2. organize them.
3. practice the analogy technique of
Second session:
conviction.
 An oral debate and discussion of a
4.
perform orally as two debating teams:
topic to be agreed on in class.
affirmative and negative
Each student is to contribute to a debate topic
with a partner on either the affirmative or
negative team.
First session:
 End of term oral exam
Second session:
 End of term oral exam
V- Evaluation:
Effective attendance & in-class debates
Mid term oral exam
Final oral exam
Total
40 marks
20 marks
40 marks
100 marks
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