Development of critical thinking of future specialists in the process of learning foreign language
Journal Title: Науковий часопис Національного педагогічного університету імені М. П. Драгоманова. Серія 5 Педагогічні науки: реалії та перспективи - Year 2018, Vol 60, Issue 2
Abstract
The article considers some questions concerned with the critical thinking of future specialists during the process of learning foreign language. The notion “critical thinking” is analyzed in this text. It is determined that critical thinking has some relation¬ship with theoretical and practical thinking, characterized by the ability of a person to identify independently contradictions, de¬termine problems and ways to solve them. The process of forming skills for critical thinking is closely connected with developing some students’ mental abilities during the studying of various types of speech, because the subject of speech activity is thought. The development of students’ critical thinking in the study of foreign language can be regarded as one of the factors in the formation of communicative competence. The main forms of development should be “brainstorming”, discussion, debate, role-playing and business games, etc. The educational process should be organized in such a way that students have a constant desire to express their views. The organizational foundations of usage such the active technologies as “brainstorming”, discussion, debates in the process of training specialists in higher education are revealed. The recommendations and methods of conducting debates in the lessons of the foreign language are provided in the article. It is emphasized that the development of critical thinking by means of the foreign language increases the effectiveness of edu-cational process, shapes the students’ ability to reason; ability to work in pairs, groups. Critical thinking develops skills working independently and is an important condition for increasing general and professional training of future specialists.
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Н. М. Стеценко
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