by David Rear Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo Abstract The development of critical thinking (CT) skills has become a key goal for educators in first and second language contexts. Teachers in EFL contexts, however, are often constrained by the linguistic skills of their students. This paper outlines a systematic approach towards developing the critical thinking skills of students with relatively low linguistic abilities. Read full article »
Tag archives for oral presentation skills
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Features
- The Effect of Language Attitudes on Learner Preferences: A Study on South Koreans’ Perceptions of the Philippine English Accent
- Pedagogical Blogging: Promoting Tertiary Level Students’ Critical Thinking by Using Socratic Questions
- Using Children’s Literature to Explore the Issue of Exclusion: Language Learning Through Personal Connections, Multiple Perspectives and Critical Reflections
- “Unheard Melodies’’ from Behind the Veil: Male and Female Omani Student Responses to Translated Short Stories by Arab Women Writers
- The Effects of Bilingual Instruction on the Literacy Skills of Young Learners
- Reliability of Second Language Listening Self-Assessments: Implications for Pedagogy
- Motivation through Autonomy: A Case Study at a Japanese University
- Assessing Students’ Language Arts Performance: The Experience of Hong Kong Teachers
- Teacher Reflections: Teaching Article Use to Graduate Students
- Sentence Types: Students’ Perceptions and Productions
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Innovations
- From Course Book to Source Book: Maintaining Teacher Autonomy
- A Suggested Writing Process for In-House Materials Development
- Putting a Humanistic Approach to Grammatical Input into Practice: A Sample Lesson
- Using Facebook to Extend Learning into Students’ Digital Lives
- Accelerated Learning In and Out of the Reading Classroom
- Reading What’s Beyond the Textbooks: Documentary Films as Student Projects in College Reading Courses
- Digital Storytelling in the Foreign Language Classroom
- Creative Ways of Teaching Research Paper Writing
- Empowering Students to Self-Learn
- Encouraging Proofreading and Revision
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ELT Court
- Does ‘Self-Access’ Still Have Life in It? : A Response to Reinders (2012)
- The End of Self-Access?: From Walled Garden to Public Park
- Listening Strategy Instruction (or Extensive Listening?): A Response to Renandya (2012)
- Five Reasons Why Listening Strategy Instruction Might Not Work with Lower Proficiency Learners
- Rubrics-Based Writing: Liberating Rather Than Restricting in Many Contexts
- Formulaic Writing Advice: A False Panacea
- The Case against Group Grades
- The Case for Group Grades
- The Case against Abstract Grammar: Against Non-Communicative Grammars
- The Case for Abstract Grammar: Formal Grammar and Linguistic Communication
