English speech and debate are the embodiment of the English language comprehensive ability。 As English is popular and frequently used in international exchanges all over the world, people have more chances to use English to make a speech or debate: in formal academic reports, foreign friends’ banquet, all types of speech and debate contests, and so on。 English speech and debate are the basic and necessary skills of today’s students, it should be taken seriously in school education。 The eighth level of the target language skills in the Ordinary High School English Curriculum (experimental edition) states that: "Be able to prepare for a 3-minute speech about the general topic。" The goal of ninth level is: "Be able to prepare for a 5-10 minutes speech on some special subjects and answer questions about it。" Moreover, speech and debate as a class, language application have also been listed as one of any high school elective courses。 Speech and debate are listed as one of the arbitrary elective courses of high school as a language application class。

Featuring an orderly, efficient and entertaining format, the parliamentary debating style originates from the British Parliamentary debating。 Since 2004, FLTRP NEDC has officially adopted the parliamentary debating style，the prevalent debating format across the world。 Thereafter，FLTRP NEDC has made positive impacts respectively upon on China's college debaters, college English teaching and the research of English debate。 

At present, Chinese English teaching still adopts the traditional teaching mode。 Teachers pass knowledge on to their students according to the teaching material。 The purpose of teaching is completing teaching tasks。 Teaching is a process of learning, understanding and mastering, which is directly reflected in the teaching material。 However, the process of cultivating students’ positive learning attitudes and habits is invisible, it is the teaching content in daily life。 Teachers should study and teach in the light of students’ specific conditions。 The using of teaching materials which corresponds with the New Curriculum is a significant milestone。 With its development in teaching content, the teaching modes have been in rapid change to keep pace with the time。 Education should be faced with modernization and future。 Therefore, the English teaching modes should keep in change with time。

In a long run, though adopting the parliamentary debating style successfully，FLTRP NEDC is still groping its way towards the demand which adapts to the present status of China so as to cater for the innovation and advancement of Chinese English teaching in the 21st century。

2。 Literature Review

     A succession of successful host of FLTRP NEDC has been noticed by the English professionals, the event promotes and has far-reaching influence on Chinese English teaching。 In the past years, many scholars at home and abroad made unremitting efforts to introduce the debate to English teaching。

2。1 Debate in America

     There are lots of researches on debating skills and debating tournaments in foreign countries, many universities have special associations for debate, and hold regular events。 In America, for example, a nationwide intervarsity debate contest began as early as 1920 and held every year since then。 Moreover, a nationwide debate contest was recorded prior to 1927。(Mus-grave, 1946:140-142) America has a lot of debating organizations such as Speech Association of America, American Forensic Association, The National Forensic League, National Catholic Forensic League, and American Parliamentary Debate Association, some of which already have a history of more than 80 years。 In addition, there are various writings related to debating research, ranging from debating skill tutorials to relevant linguistic rhetoric studies, and issued magazines and journals on a regular basis such as Debater's Magazine, Forensic, Gavel, Persuader, Rostrum, Speaker, Quarterly Journal of Speech, etc。