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.