Abstract
This study was conducted in a debate course which was adopted with active learning in order to strengthen students' communication ability. In a third grade conversation class of Japanese department of certain university in Taipei, learners were asked to think about how to debate and use Japanese to debate with other learners instead of being lectured by teacher. After debates, students' self-reflection sheets were collected and analyzed in order to understand the change on students' logical thinking ability. Through observation, students' way of thinking had changed during the process of presentation and debate. In addition, learners also recognized their progress in Japanese.
