Thinking skills and communicative language teaching: a curriculum perspective

Teaching Thinking Skills

Communicative Tasks and the Language Curriculum

Over the last 25 years the communicative task has emerged as a significant building block in the development of language curricula and also as an element for motivating process-oriented second language acquisition research. This paper reviews the influence of the communicative task on curriculum development and summarizes the research base for task-based language teaching. In the final part of ...

Teaching Creative Thinking Skills: A Longitudinal Study

With an increasing degree of complexity in the retail business, future business success for retail professionals will likely require creative problem-solving abilities. Therefore, there is a need for retail merchandising programs to emphasize creative problem solving because creativity can be learned. In this study, we share how an undergraduate-level creative problem-solving class is designed ...

The computer and thinking skills: Rationale for a revitalized curriculum

Recent reports lament the devaluation of the baccalaureate degree; too often students fail to acquire the thinking skills needed after graduation. Fortunately, the computer, besides offering utilities that increase productivity, can deliver computer-aided instruction (CAl) that helps develop thinking skills by simulating the mental processes of academic experts. Liberal arts faculty sometimes d...

teaching critical thinking and Problem solving skills

Critical thinking is a learned skill that requires instruction and practice. Business education instructors at both the secondary and post-secondary levels can enhance students’ critical thinking skills by (1) using instructional strategies that actively engage students in the learning process rather than relying on lecture and rote memorization, (2) focusing instruction on the process of learn...