scholarly journals Critical Thinking and Difficult Problems in Foreign Language Teaching

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Minmin Tang

Critical thinking plays an important role in life. The small one is to solve the daily trivial problems, and the large one is related to the development of the country’s economy, technological progress, and social progress. Therefore, in the field of foreign language research, more and more scholars are focusing on cultivating students’ critical thinking. The focus of this article is why it is so important to cultivate students’ critical thinking in foreign language teaching and the difficulty of developing students’ critical thinking. Based on this, the author will analyze the problems existing in foreign language teaching today.

2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-225

03–535 Hellermann, John (Southern Illinois U., Carbondale, USA; Email: [email protected]). The interactive use of prosody in the IRF exchange: Teacher repetition in feedback moves. Language in Society (Cambridge, UK), 32, 1 (2003), 79–104.03–536 Wendt, Michael (Universität Bremen, Germany). Kontext und Konstruktion: Fremdsprachendidaktische theoriebildung und ihre Implikationen für die Fremdsprachenforschung. [Context and construction: Theory building in foreign language teaching and its implications for foreign language research.] Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung (Berlin, Germany), 13, 1 (2002), 1–62.03–537 Weppelman, Tammy, L., Bostow, Angela, Schiffer, Ryan, Elbert-Perez, Evelyn and Newman, Rochelle, S. (U. of Iowa, USA). Children's use of the prosodic characteristics of infant-directed speech. Language and Communication (Oxford, UK), 23, 1 (2003), 63–80.


2021 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 81-94
Author(s):  
Wei WANG

The basis of critical thinking foreign language teaching is to regard language as a means to develop higher-order thinking ability. In language teaching, it aims to develop the thinking ability of learners, and to use the language-learning concept of thinking ability in situations beyond language classrooms. It contains a series of principles that reflect this view of language and language teaching, which can be used to support various classroom-operating procedures. Studies have summarized the principles of critical thinking foreign language teaching into 8 items: target, evaluate, routinize, reflect, inquire, fulfill, integrate, and content. This study takes the literature course that requires the highest critical thinking ability in the teaching of German major in universities as an example, and investigates the influence of the most easily neglected evaluation principle on students' learning motivation through quantitative experiments.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Qingqing Liu

The use of critical thinking in language teaching helps to cultivate the overall quality of talents. Therefore, critical thinking is of great significance to foreign language teaching. The paper starts with the concept and importance of critical thinking, briefly describes some of the difficult problems in foreign language teaching today, and finally puts forward the enlightenment of the cultivation of critical thinking on solving difficult problems in foreign language teaching.


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-83
Author(s):  
ANI MANUKYAN

The purpose of this article is to illustrate possible ways of developing critical thinking in ESL classes. We try to state that one step of doing this is to change teacher’s attitude towards students. Critical thinking means making reasoned judgments. Basically, it is using criteria to judge the quality of something. In essence, critical thinking is a disciplined manner of thought that a person uses to assess the validity of something: a statement, news story, argument, research, etc.


2021 ◽  
pp. 118-123
Author(s):  
Denysenko I.I. ◽  
Tarasiuk A.M.

The article is devoted to one of the advanced formats of foreign language teaching at high school, which effectively complements extramural and full-time forms of education – distance learning. The author emphasizes that the quality and effectiveness of foreign languages distance learning athigher educational establishments depends on effectively organized course; the pedagogical skills of teachers, participating in the educational process; the quality of applied methodical content.The main principles of foreign languages distance learning in higher education has been covered, the means of improving the quality and effectiveness of this educational format has been proposed, the key conceptual regulations of foreign languages distance learning has been determined. The article proposes a model for organizing foreign languages distance learning course for future specialists, describes a system to control and monitor the knowledge of all types of speech activities. It is also noted that independent work in the foreign languages distance course at high school should not be passive, but on the contrary, the student should be involved in active cognitive activities, not limited to acquiring foreign language skills, but necessarily includes their practical application; to solve certain communicative tasks in the future professional activity.The article concludes that in the process of organizing the foreign language distance learning course at high school, it is necessary to take into account not only the didactic characteristics and functions of multimedia and telecommunications as a technological basis, but also the conceptual trends of didactic distance learning as a component of modern education. In addition, it is necessary to take into account the specific nature of foreign language teaching in general.Key words: higher educational establishment, distance learning, multimedia means, independent work, information and communicative technologies, Internet, interactive engagement.


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