Eneritz Garro has done her thesis at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country. Many theses are done every year, but very few have to do with young people.

Garro’s thesis, on the other hand, is on the subject of young people themselves; to be more exact, on debates among young people in Basque. Even more specifically, she has examined a feature that is peculiar to debates among young people. This feature is known as reported speech: in other words the embedding of what other people say in one’s own discourse.

This resource is terribly important in debates and very useful for moving them forward, because you bear in mind what the other person has said. The author of the thesis has compared the debates of young people with those of adults, and has shown that this resource is not used in the same way. Adults somehow use it more than young people. Garro has not only studied this resource, she provides some clues for using debates in oral teaching,

Keywords : Communication

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