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What did we talk about?
Critical/Creative Thinking
Grammar/Vocabulary
Digital/Technology/Web
Games/Fun Autonomy
Reading
Writing Listening
Speaking
Pronunciation
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What did we talk about?
Digital/Technology/Web 21Critical/Creative Thinking 12Speaking 11Pronunciation 7Reading 7Games/Fun 4Listening/Writing 4Autonomy 3Grammar/Vocabulary 3
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Critical Thinking
in Actionby Lindsay Clandfield
ABCI ConferenceJuly 2012g
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What is critical thinking?
A “floating signifier” Higher and lower level
skills Critical thinking and
the argument Critical thinking in ELT Critical literacy
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Critical thinking taxonomies
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Higher order and lower order thinking skills
Lower order thinking:
receive
recite
direct medium
trasmit knowledge
reproduce knowledge
Higher order thinking:
manipulate
transform meaning
solve problems
construction
uncertainty
environments & opportunities
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Critical thinking and the argument
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Critical thinking in ELT
Distinguishing fact from opinion
Challenging assumptions
Keeping an open mind to different possibilities and solutions. (Day, 2003)
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Critical literacy
Sees education as a social and political act.
Imagines other possibilities and realities.
Examines origins and implications of worldviews.
Questions what is presented as universally true.
Learn about others and about ourselves.
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Text exploitation
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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Facts vs Opinions
It is the 49th state of the USA.The capital is Juneau.It is a great place.The name Alaska means “great land”.The people are the friendliest in the world.The coldest temperature recorded was -62ºC.Cold weather in Alaska is nicer than in other places.
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Facts vs Opinions 2
The concept of a lottery goes back to ancient times. There were lotteries in ancient China, Greece and Roman societies.
Lotteries exploit poor people. Families with low incomes spend more on lotteries than families with high incomes.
Lottery projects have funded major projects in health, arts and education.
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Identifying implicit argumentsbased on Cottrell, S. Critical Thinking Skills Palgrave Macmillan
Employees would do very well to bear in mind that all forms of trade union association are not viewed favourably.
Employees are not to discuss their rates of pay with other workers.
If you don’t do as expected you will lose your job or suffer some other penalty.
The threat is implicit.
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People in our country believe in honesty and decency.
We don’t believe in stealing or cheating the state.
Now, officials are allowing thousands of people to emigrate here from other countries.
People from other countries are more likely to be dishonest.
No evidence presented to support this view.
Identifying implicit arguments
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When we say smaller classes and flexible hours, we really mean smaller and flexible.
When we offer excellence in language teaching, we do not take the promise lightly.
All our teachers are native speakers.
Other language schools probably lie about class size and flexible hours.
Native speaker teachers are excellent teachers.
Identifying implicit arguments
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Critical thinking and language work:Conditionals
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Looking critically at language:The passive
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Critical thinking in Images
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Using ELT to raise awareness about issues affecting people with mobility disability.
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