Why is important critical thinking?

• It increases the enjoyment and helps not only academically, but professionally, and in a person's personal life

• It helps you better understand yourself, and in turn, help you avoid any kind of negative or limiting beliefs, and focus more on your strengths.

• It allows you to have an overall feeling of peace and joy. Also give meaning and purpose to your life.

Select critical thinking skills

• Inference

• Summarizing

•  Problem-solving.

• Analysis

• Comparing and contrasting

Which of these is a strategy for the development of critical thinking?

• Inquiry-Based Instruction.

• Ask questions about everything to improve

• Behaviour management

Good critical thinking skills are not essentially the ability to think about ideas, concepts and never thoughts in a critical manner.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What are student perceptions?

• They are statements that specify what students will know, be able to do or be able to demonstrate when they have completed or participated

• They are thoughts, beliefs, and feelings about persons, situations, and events

• Building on their strengths to support them. Students bring a wealth of experiences that should be celebrated to enhance learning.

 Learner perceptions are important because of tasks and other classroom factors (e.g., task difficulty, effective learning strategies, environmental factors that help and hinder learning).

• TRUE

• FALSE

There are 4 interventions to increase interest. What are they?

• - Attention-getting settings

  -Contexts evoking prior individual interest

  -Problem-based learning

  -Enhancing utility value

• -Phonics: Associating the letters with  the speech sounds.

  -Phonemic Awareness: The ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words

  -Vocabulary: The knowledg

  of words.

  · Fluency: The ability to speak or express a language effortlessly.

• -Be a continuous learner

  -Make the right decision for the majority

  -Listen and consider unconventional opinions

  -Avoid analysis paralysis

Select the correct answer: Interest

• Is crucial because it allows us to change behavior, develop competencies, be creative, set goals, grow interests

• Is essential to academic success,is also important in any educational context

• Is essential to effective learning and decision making in life

What can we use as English language teaching and learning materials?

• They can’t be anything which is deliberately used to increase the learners’ knowledge and/or experience.

• They can be instruments that contain different scales and characteristics that allow students to adapt easily.

• They can be anything which is deliberately used to increase the learners’ knowledge and/or experience

• They can be anything from your teachers to help in structuring and planning the skills you want to convey.

Materials are the center of instruction and one of the most important influences on what goes on in the classroom

• TRUE

• FALSE