{"id":3880,"date":"2013-03-09T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eltweekly.com\/elt-newsletter\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2013-03-09T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T05:00:47","slug":"vol-5-issue-9-oup-article-critical-thinking-in-the-elt-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=3880","title":{"rendered":"Vol. 5 Issue 9 \u2013 OUP Article: Critical Thinking in the ELT Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"color: #ff0000; text-align: center;\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#9 | March 11, 2013 |\u00a0<strong>ISSN 0975-3036<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest article on\u00a0Oxford University Press ELT blog is titled &#8220;Critical Thinking in the ELT Classroom&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Edward de Chazal\u00a0says, &#8220;Critical thinking is innate \u2013 it comes from inside us \u2013 and as humans we have survived and developed by approaching things critically. Children naturally try to check what they have been told, and are \u2018programmed\u2019 to piece together the information they encounter. For example, a six year-old child I know was told that diamonds are the strongest and hardest thing on earth and could cut through other stones and even metal. He then visited a rock on the English Jurassic Coast that had been \u2018carved\u2019 into an arch, and after listening to an explanation of how it had happened asked, \u2018Which is more powerful, diamonds or the sea?\u2019 This child could not yet read and write, but like other children, he was developing his critical mind.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Critical thinking essentially means having a questioning, challenging, analytical state of mind. A critical mind is comfortable with a degree of scepticism and doubt; it is a mind that is open to reinterpreting and refining its knowledge, and accepting that what we know may change in the light of new knowledge. A critical thinker questions whether something is believable, evaluates how strong is the basis of an assumption, and makes new connections between what they know and learn&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oupeltglobalblog.com\/2013\/03\/07\/critical-thinking-in-the-elt-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Critical Thinking in the ELT Classroom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest article on Oxford University Press ELT blog is titled &#8220;Critical Thinking in the ELT 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