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Critical thinking and debate : theory and practice in english classroom
Individuals who think critically make a concerted effort to live their lives in a sensible, reasonable, and empathetic manner. Critical thinking is the process of analyzing and evaluating one’s own thinking with the intention of enhancing it. It is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking and requires assent to rigorous standards of excellence and mindful command of their use.
Educating students to think critically and impartially is a major objective of all educational institutions. To effectively teach critical thinking, it must be integrated into the content, structure, and sequence of the curriculum at all grade levels. Education modifies and reconstructs the student’s psyche, allowing them to engage with and cognitively empathize with alternative viewpoints, assimilate crucial ideas from a discipline, and solve challenging issues on their own. Information literacy is essential for students to distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources of information, and to evaluate its clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, and significance.
This book aims to help language learners and teachers fulfill the urgent and emerging need for essential thinking skills in the post-Industrial Revolution 5.0 era. It covers the three key ideas of critical thinking, proficiency in the English language, and concept of debate in 11 chapters. Critical thinking is an intellectually disciplined process of actively and deftly conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information obtained from observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication. It involves analyzing the logical patterns or components that underlie all reasoning, including the goal, issue, or topic at hand, assumptions, concepts, empirical support, conclusions drawn, implications and consequences, and challenges from opposing viewpoints. It is self-directed and self-disciplined, and it aims to reason at the best possible level of quality while maintaining an open mind.
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