Critical thinking

The present book has been designed in two sections. The first section ‎presents a brief overview on critical thinking (CT). In particular, we provide ‎you with a concise but clear introduction to CT, rationale of its teaching, its ‎role in education, its status in L2-related studies, some online discussions ‎and its propositions. In the second section, several techniques and strategies ‎for promoting critical thinking in language classes are proposed. The ‎authors of the present book selected these techniques based on the existing ‎literature and models of critical thinking, the authors' extensive studies and ‎publications on critical thinking, as well as their practical experience in ‎language classes. These techniques comprise: concept mapping, critical ‎discourse analysis, argumentation, emotion regulation practices, and ‎reflective journals. In five chapters, we first introduce these techniques in ‎sequence, and then we present our recommended procedure on how to ‎integrate each of these programs into language classes. These step-by-step ‎and accessible procedures are hoped to equip language learners with ‎essential skills required to think critically. ‎