How might language affect critical thinking performance?

Does teaching critical thinking affect students’ L2 attitudes?

The idea is growing among educators that thinking skill needs to be given a direct attention. On one hand, critical thinking is supposed to broaden students’ thinking in all regards (Schafersman, 1991); and on the other hand learners’ attitudes towards the second language can affect both their performance in the class and their final accomplishment. To this end, the present study started with t...

How Might Pragmatic Language Skills Affect the Written Expression of Students with Language Learning Disabilities?

This article describes ways in which pragmatic language abilities may play a role in the writing performance of children and adolescents with language learning disabilities. First, a brief overview is presented of how pragmatic language difficulties might negatively influence writing performance. Next, research on the writing performance of students with language and learning problems is review...

does teaching critical thinking affect students’ l2 attitudes?

the idea is growing among educators that thinking skill needs to be given a direct attention. on one hand, critical thinking is supposed to broaden students’ thinking in all regards (schafersman, 1991); and on the other hand learners’ attitudes towards the second language can affect both their performance in the class and their final accomplishment. to this end, the present study started with t...

How a Near-Earth Object Impact Might Affect Society

The hazard of impacts by meteoroids, asteroids, and comets ranging in size from meters to kilometers should be a matter of practical concern to policy makers in many nations. At worst, the very unlikely case of a 3 km asteroid striking Earth could send civilization into a new Dark Age; this case – with a potential death toll of a billion or more – has an annualized fatality rate comparable to o...

How ocean acidification might affect fisheries and ecosystems - and ourselves