The innovative methods in teaching foreign languages: the role of skill and translation in teaching namangan, uzbekistan

Литература 

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1. Jūratė Helsvig. Vilniauskolegija 
2. Хатчинсон Т., Уотерс А. Английский язык для конкретных целей: 1996. 
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Иордания 
Р.Р. 
Английский 
для 
академических 
целей. 
Пресса
Кембриджского университета. 1997.
Talibdjanov Bahodir Alimovich 
Namangan Institute of Engineering and Technology 
CRITICAL THINKING IN THE ENGLISH CLASSES 
 
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 
“The children are now working as if I did not exist.” 
~ Maria Montessori, Educator (1870-1952) 
No one disputes that today innovative teaching technologies and ICT became 
an integral part of education system. But apart from innovative teaching technologies 
and ICT there are other pedagogical technologies which are successfully being used 
in teaching process like: personality-centered education, projects, problem-solving 
technique and critical thinking through reading and writing. 
Hereby, I want to draw your attention to so called critical thinking.
Firstly, let us take a look at critical thinking. What is critical thinking and why 
should 
we 
teach 
our 
students 
to 
think 
critically?
Critical thinking consists of mental process of analyzing and evaluating of 
information, it is not just blindly believing to what we read or people tell.
Critical thinking is a higher order of thinking: it is the practice of using a number of 
different advanced thinking skills in a variety of complex ways. Critical 
thinking focuses on thought: it looks at how facts are proven, arguments are formed, 
conclusions are reached, not just what the facts, argument or conclusion may be. 
Critical thinking is self-reflexive: it involves reflecting on, questioning and testing 
your own thinking processes.
Critical thinking is discipline-specific: it engages in particular forms of 
reasoning, such as mathematical reasoning, historical analysis or literary 
interpretation, which are specific to a particular discipline.
“Critical thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at 
the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way. People who think critically 
consistently attempt to live rationally, reasonably, empathically. They are keenly 
aware of the inherently flawed nature of human thinking when left 
unchecked.”(Elder, 2007) 
As you see above critical thinking is not just thinking, but thinking which entails self-
improvement. Critical thinking has its own benefits in academic performance, in 
workplace and everyday life. 
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