PROMOTING CRITICAL THINKING IN A UNIVERSITY EFL CONTEXT – ENGLISH MAJORS AS CRITICAL THINKERS

Authors

  • Andrijana Aničić

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2024.16.5

Keywords:

critical thinking development in higher education, Critical Pedagogy, critical perspectivization

Abstract

This paper focuses on the importance of developing and fostering critical thinking in higher education, and in particular, in university-level EFL classrooms. The paper will present the design of the course taught to English majors at the English Department of the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. The course is aimed at enhancing the productive language skills of speaking and writing and is part of the core course Contemporary English. In addition to writing and speaking skills, the underlying goal of the tasks and materials in this course is to engage students in critical reflection about the topics covered, their language use, English as a global language, and their subject positions as English majors in the contemporary world. The aim of this paper is to propose a method for developing and encouraging critical thinking in a university-level EFL classroom: critical perspectivization.

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Published

2024-12-30

How to Cite

Aničić, A. (2024). PROMOTING CRITICAL THINKING IN A UNIVERSITY EFL CONTEXT – ENGLISH MAJORS AS CRITICAL THINKERS. Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies, 16(1), 111–132. https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2024.16.5

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2024): BELLS - volume 16

Section

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS

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