Critical thinking in teaching and learning English for Vietnamese students: The case of textbook Life Pre-Intermediate (Vietnamese edition)
Authors: Vu Thi Ha, Nguyen Thi To Hang
Vinh university Journal of Science
: Vol.50 - 1B/2021 : 12
Publishing year: 6/2021
To improve the effectiveness of English teaching and learning, it is necessary for
learners to develop critical thinking skills. Despite being a common-used skill of students
worldwide, it has not been effectively acquired by Vietnamese students when using
English textbooks as Life Pre-Intermediate (Vietnam edition). Using the methodological
triangulation, we set the task of helping English learners and their teachers in conceiving,
designing, implementing and operating critical thinking construction in the textbook, and
in relevance to their background knowledge. The results of a survey of freshmen at Vinh
University show that the participants' capacity of critical thinking, their embodied
experience and learning methods are rather far from what the textbook requires.
Therefore, the essential way to learning and teaching English as a second language with
Life Pre-Intermediate is to re-recognize and adhere to the principles of foreign language
teaching and learning, and that teachers need to play the role of advisors.
Language learning and teaching; critical thinking; arguments; CDIO; embodied experience