JALT2025 - Tokyo

Audio Journals as a Lens on Argumentative Voice

Nov 2, 2025, 9:40 AM

1h

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Practice-oriented Workshop (60-minutes) Language Skills Room 301

Speakers

Mr Michael Phillips (J. F. Oberlin University) Paul Sevigny (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)

Description

This session explores how audio journals support CEFR B2- learners in developing personal and rhetorical voices in academic debate (Matsuda, 2015). Through a structured sequence of mock trials, debates, and reflective audio journals, students can deepen connections between spoken and written argumentation. We will discuss task design, sequencing, and assessment challenges while demonstrating how these diaries enhance student reflection, integrate sub-skills, and provide teachers with useful insights into knowledge assimilation and interlanguage development.

Summary

This session explores how audio journals support CEFR B2- learners in developing personal and rhetorical voices in academic debate (Matsuda, 2015). Through a structured sequence of mock trials, debates, and reflective audio journals, students can deepen connections between spoken and written argumentation. We will discuss task design, sequencing, and assessment challenges while demonstrating how audio diaries enhance student reflection, integrate sub-skills, and provide teachers with insights into knowledge assimilation and interlanguage development.