Viewpoints on the Development of Critical Thinking Skills in the Process of Foreign Language Teaching in Higher Education and the Labor Market
This paper analyzes the different viewpoints of the participants in four focus groups discussing critical thinking (CT) in teaching/studying foreign languages. Three of them were conducted at Vilnius University and one at the Public Service Language Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania. All of the interview...
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| author | Svetozar Poštić Roma Kriaučiūnienė Ovidiu Ivancu |
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| description | This paper analyzes the different viewpoints of the participants in four focus groups discussing critical thinking (CT) in teaching/studying foreign languages. Three of them were conducted at Vilnius University and one at the Public Service Language Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania. All of the interviewees agree about the importance of critical thinking, although they define it differently and emphasize a number of various aspects needed for its acquisition and application. Both students/trainees and instructors/trainers describe several classroom activities that stimulate CT and suggest implicit and explicit methods for evaluating it. The focus group discussions were conducted as part of the international projects Think4Jobs, whose main task was to determine the gap between CT as it is taught at institutions of higher education and in the labor market. Answering this question, the participants mention the unpredictability of the labor market, the usefulness of CT for many different jobs and the importance of teaching it for the acquisition of foreign languages. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-14066174502f49f4ba5e0dce32ef6d6e2023-11-16T20:08:39ZengMDPI AGEducation Sciences2227-71022023-01-0113215210.3390/educsci13020152Viewpoints on the Development of Critical Thinking Skills in the Process of Foreign Language Teaching in Higher Education and the Labor MarketSvetozar Poštić0Roma Kriaučiūnienė1Ovidiu Ivancu2Institute of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, 01513 Vilnius, LithuaniaInstitute of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, 01513 Vilnius, LithuaniaInstitute of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, 01513 Vilnius, LithuaniaThis paper analyzes the different viewpoints of the participants in four focus groups discussing critical thinking (CT) in teaching/studying foreign languages. Three of them were conducted at Vilnius University and one at the Public Service Language Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania. All of the interviewees agree about the importance of critical thinking, although they define it differently and emphasize a number of various aspects needed for its acquisition and application. Both students/trainees and instructors/trainers describe several classroom activities that stimulate CT and suggest implicit and explicit methods for evaluating it. The focus group discussions were conducted as part of the international projects Think4Jobs, whose main task was to determine the gap between CT as it is taught at institutions of higher education and in the labor market. Answering this question, the participants mention the unpredictability of the labor market, the usefulness of CT for many different jobs and the importance of teaching it for the acquisition of foreign languages.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/13/2/152critical thinkingfocus groupshigher educationlabor marketThink4Jobs |
| spellingShingle | Svetozar Poštić Roma Kriaučiūnienė Ovidiu Ivancu Viewpoints on the Development of Critical Thinking Skills in the Process of Foreign Language Teaching in Higher Education and the Labor Market Education Sciences critical thinking focus groups higher education labor market Think4Jobs |
| title | Viewpoints on the Development of Critical Thinking Skills in the Process of Foreign Language Teaching in Higher Education and the Labor Market |
| title_full | Viewpoints on the Development of Critical Thinking Skills in the Process of Foreign Language Teaching in Higher Education and the Labor Market |
| title_fullStr | Viewpoints on the Development of Critical Thinking Skills in the Process of Foreign Language Teaching in Higher Education and the Labor Market |
| title_full_unstemmed | Viewpoints on the Development of Critical Thinking Skills in the Process of Foreign Language Teaching in Higher Education and the Labor Market |
| title_short | Viewpoints on the Development of Critical Thinking Skills in the Process of Foreign Language Teaching in Higher Education and the Labor Market |
| title_sort | viewpoints on the development of critical thinking skills in the process of foreign language teaching in higher education and the labor market |
| topic | critical thinking focus groups higher education labor market Think4Jobs |
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