scholarly journals Conceptions of Critical Thinking from University EFL Teachers

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matias A. Marin ◽  
Luisa De la Pava
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Reflective Learning ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Source Of Information

Critical Thinking has become an educational and social ideal. English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching has not been apart from the discussion on the importance of implementing Critical Thinking into the educational process. However, research on Critical Thinking has broadly been carried out in other fields of knowledge rather than in EFL. Therefore, this study aimed to comprehend the conceptions university English teachers had about Critical Thinking in order to get a wider understanding on the way it has been conceived in EFL in relation to its concept, traits, promotion and assessment. Content Analysis, as a qualitative process of analysis and source of information, interpretations and conclusions, was the method adopted. The software Atlas.ti was the tool implemented to analyze the information. The results revealed that there is some agreement on the conception of Critical Thinking as a set of cognitive skills for problem-solving and reflective learning. Nevertheless, EFL teachers brought about their deficiency in understanding on what Critical Thinking entails. Thus, they emphasized the need of training on topics such as teaching, learning, didactics, methodology, strategies and resources to foster Critical Thinking in EFL. Based on teachers’ participation in this study and the literature consulted, it was concluded that Critical Thinking in EFL is compound of communicative competence, creativity, argumentation, problem-solving, decision-making, autonomous learning, metacognition and emotions.

scholarly journals Indonesian EFL Teachers' Conceptions of Critical Thinking

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Hamzah Puadi Ilyas
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Bloom's Taxonomy ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
West Java ◽  
Bloom’S Taxonomy ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Emerging Themes

This study aims to investigate the Indonesian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers’ conceptions of critical thinking. 59 teachers coming from three different provinces (Jakarta, Banten, West Java) in Indonesia participated in this study by answering open-ended questionnaire. The questionnaire asked two questions. The first question asked whether the participant recognised the term ‘critical thinking.’ The second question asked how the participant conceptualised critical thinking. The study found that only one teacher who never heard the term critical thinking. With regard to the conceptions of critical, there were some emerging themes such as analysis, evaluation, criticism, creativity, problem solving, reflection, curiosity, and even Bloom’s taxonomy. Findings of this study are similar to the critical thinking conceptions proposed by Western academics.

scholarly journals Building Student Teacher Interaction Pattern in EFL-CLT Classroom

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Mad Riyanto
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Student Teacher ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Teacher Interaction ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Teaching Learning

One of the priorities of language teachers is to ensure classes are interesting and engaging. Learners’ different backgrounds and individual preferences, however, make each class unique. The objective of EFL classroom adopting Communicative language teaching (CLT) approach is to be fluent and communicative competence in genuine communication (Hatch1978; Nunan, 1987). In this context, EFL teachers play a pivotal role in creating a comfortable environment to persuade the students in communicative interaction. By a good communication between the teacher and students the teaching learning process will be more effective. The teachers can motivate and encourage students to communicate with them well, if interaction has been done. Teachers as the source of second language or foreign language should give meaningful interactions to the students. Krashen(1981,1985) states to facilitate such meaningful interactions, EFL teachers serve as a source of L2 input to the students. The writer attempts to build the pattern of student teacher interaction and reveals the factors inhibit teachers to interact with students.

scholarly journals Scientific Conferences as Way to Develop Students’ Foreign Language Communicative Competence

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01155
Author(s):  
Yuliya Savinova ◽  
Tatiana Akhmetzyanova ◽  
Svetlana Pozdnyakova ◽  
Ekaterina Dvorak ◽  
Zhanna Zarutskaya
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
High Level ◽  
Development Of Students

The issues of the student engagement in science-related activities and the development of students’ language communicative competence are especially relevant in a technical university, where due to the prevailing of the Sciences, the professional communicative competence has become increasingly vital. The goal of this article is to examine how interdisciplinary scientific conferences for students held in foreign languages can foster the foreign language communicative competence of students. In the article, we present the definition and the three basic models of communicative competence. A method of pedagogical observation is used that represents comprehension and analysis of goal-oriented preparation of students for practical scientific conferences. We reveal the fact that interdisciplinary scientific conferences for students held in foreign languages allow educators to foster the foreign language communicative competence of students and deepen their knowledge in professional area, as well as to equip them with research skills since students’ participation in the conferences increases their attention and focus, motivates them to practice critical thinking skills of high level.

DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITIVE SKILLS THROUGH COMPUTER EDUCATIONAL GAMES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todorka Terzieva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Relationship

This article presents the results of a study on the possibilities of computer educational games for the development of various cognitive skills for learners. The advantages they offer in the learning process are highlighted. Special emphasis is placed on the relationship between game-based learning and mental development of learners. Examples of game-based learning from leading educational institutions at different stages of the educational process are given. A prototype of an educational game with several interactive puzzles is presented. They are designed to teach students in mathematics and philology (learning a foreign language). The developed prototypes can be used to acquire new knowledge or to assess the acquisition of knowledge and skills in various subject areas.

scholarly journals Building academics’ foreign-language communicative competence in scientific areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-117
Author(s):  
N. V. Bykhtina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Professional Orientation ◽  
Scientific Terminology ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Pedagogical Research

The paper raises the problem of building the communicative competence of academics. Analysis of the theoretical material of the research helps further investigate the process of learning a foreign language by postgraduates within departmental educational milieu and define the foreign-language communicative competence of a research academician. In accordance with the logic of the presented research, the author uses a complex of complementary methods. They are theoretical research (systematic and theoretical analysis, studying the references in Pedagogy and Methodology of teaching a foreign language, comparative analysis of the Russian and foreign experience, considers the peculiarities of the content of research academicians training in a foreign language), pedagogical research (discussion, supervision, interview). The author stresses the necessity to improve the substantive component of foreign language training of the researcher, taking into account the professional orientation, the use of professional terminology by those who are engaged in research activities. That makes them capable of doing interpretation, précis-writing and abstracting scientific papers in English, thus building their foreign-language communicative competence. The author concludes that in the educational process it is advisable to use a manual, an interactive dictionary and a thesaurus for the successful organization of the process of building the foreign-language communicative competence of the research academician. The content of the materials mentioned above should be aimed at forming postgraduates’ readiness to participate in Russian and international research teams and use modern scientific terminology in a foreign language in various international scientific and representative conferences.

scholarly journals Development of Universal Skills at the Russian Universities: Challenges and Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 01014
Author(s):  
Svetlana D. Ahmetova ◽  
Larisa V. Nevskaya ◽  
Irena A. Esaulova
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
Russian Universities

Rapid technological development and digital transformation in all areas of life have resulted in a dramatic change in the nature of thinking and requirements to skills. In the information economy, it is not money or natural resources, or territory but people with their critical thinking and high-quality skills, who have become a valuable asset. In this regard, the educational sector advances to the forefront. However, education hardly complies with the requirements of the new economy and retains its basic features of the industrial era. The curricula and educational processes at universities fail to prepare young people for life in our complicated world, or develop critical thinking; they discourage creativity and ability to cooperate. Curricula tend to focus on the development of professional skills and neglect the development of social and cognitive skills. The study sets out to investigate the usefulness of higher social and cognitive skills in the educational process at the Faculty of Humanities in Perm National Research Polytechnic University and offers recommendations on the development of these skills in the educational process.

scholarly journals Metacognitive Awareness and Critical Thinking Abilities of Pre-service EFL Teachers

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Dilek Cakici
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Metacognitive Awareness ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Efl Teachers

The primary aim of current study was to investigate the possible relationship between Metacognitive Awareness (MA) and Critical Thinking Skills (CTS) in a foreign language learning context. In addition, this research aimed to probe the effect of gender and years of pre-service English language teachers on the relation between metacognitive awareness and critical thinking abilities. 218 pre-service EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers participated in the study. Metacognitive Awareness Inventory and Critical Thinking Questionnaire were employed to gather necessary data. Obtained results confirmed that there existed a highly significant positive correlation between MA and CTS. Besides, the results indicated that there was a strong relation between the years of pre-service EFL teachers and their MA and CTS. Seniors were found to be more metacognitively aware and critical thinkers than their counterparts. Conversely, it was revealed that there was no gender effect on both MA and CTS. Finally, certain suggestions were set for tertiary institutions to develop metacognition and critical thinking skills in foreign language classroom settings.

On Integrative Bilingual Teaching of a Foreign Language and Engineering at a Technical University

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-96
Author(s):  
Eduard Krylov
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Process Conditions ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Bilingual Teaching ◽  
Technical University ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
And Control

Integrative bilingual teaching/learning of foreign language and engineering disciplines at a technical university provides a good opportunity for students of the personal growth both in cognitive and communicative aspects, which contributes to their better positions in the labor market. To put this opportunity into practice, the educators should have clear ideas about the goal of this educational process, psychological aspects accompanying the process, conditions of its implementation, basic units of teaching/learning, means of monitoring, assessment, and control and some others. All these components of methodology are discussed in this chapter.

Dialogue as an Efficient Tool to Learn Russian as a Foreign Language

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-67
Author(s):  
Алевтина Дейкина ◽  
Alevtina Deykina ◽  
Е. Толмачева ◽  
E. Tolmacheva
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Efficient Tool ◽  
Educational Dialogue ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Education Process

The article focusses on the criteria of educational dialogue and the specificity of a problem-solving dialogue. The case study of an adult classroom, starting from the beginners up to intermediate B1 level, is to illustrate the education process through dialogue (dialoguization of the study) as the most efficient and result-oriented one in teaching/learning Russian as a foreign language.

scholarly journals A model of forming polylingual speech culture and communicative competence as a condition for teachers’ training

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (33) ◽  
pp. e15616
Author(s):  
Sandugash Kairkhanovna Moldabekova ◽  
Aigul Zhumageldinovna Sakhariyeva ◽  
Kulzhanat Nurymzhanovna Bulatbayeva ◽  
Dlimbetova Gaini Karekeevna ◽  
Zhukenova Alma Karisovna
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Educational Material ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
The Future ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Teachers Training

The article addresses the issue of development of Kazakh, Russian and English languages in Kazakhstan. For this purpose, the authors give a definition of the types of bilingualism and polylingualism. The paper focuses on the significance of modeling of the educational process, the use of effective methods and technologies, gradual formation of foreign language speech culture and communicative competence. The model of multilingual teachers’ training is presented as a combination of motivational-value, content and technological components. In accordance with this, experimental work was conducted in three Kazakh universities. The result of the experiment is a polylingual speech culture and communicative competence of the future teachers within the selected scope of educational material. Another achievement in the experiment is the professional readiness of undergraduates to develop an integrated educational process for the formation of foreign language communicative competence, an ability to apply the concepts of the learning in educational process and justify them in a discussion. In the course of the study, the authors came to a conclusion that future teachers should have an integrated competence: knowledge of a foreign language and linguodidactic skills to plan classes in a foreign language.

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