Sunday, September 27, 2009

::Questions::

My conclusion about the set of questions and asnwers that we have is that the holyday had a big influence on those asnwers. If we had interwied in another date we had had a completely different set of asnwers. So, all those answers that we have are related with Spetember 18.
In my opinion if we interview some people on January for example people will think on vacations and that kind of stuff. So, we cannot have these answers like the whole true. Anyway, it was a good excersise to know what people think of culture and another topics too.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

::Critical Thinking::

We can say that critical thinking is a reflective judgment about what to believe or what to do in response to observations, experience, verbal or written expressions, or arguments. That is one of the definitions that we can find for critical thinking.
Now, if we think about criting thinking in the classroom we can find many people that don't have any idea about what critical thinkg is. Nowadays it is a pitty to say that many school don't let students to think on their own, they just have to repit the things that the teacher is saying. We know that students have their own point of view about diffetent topics and we as future teachers have to let him to express what they feel.
To teach English has a lot of advantages about "teaching critical thinking" beacuse English can take a lot of topics for discusion that another subject can't. So, we have to take advantage of that.
Critical thinking can be boost, and I do think taht we can do something about it.