This study aims to determine the possible relationships among foreign language vocabulary size, foreign language grammar proficiency, and critical thinking skills. To this end, 126 adult language learners were examined in terms of vocabulary size, grammar proficiency, and critical thinking skills. The results revealed that participants' grammar…

This study is an attempt to determine learners' attitudes and perceptions about critical thinking dispositions and their achievement levels in Business English classes. The participants (N=91, 61 males and 30 females) are second- and third-year undergraduate students from Management and Information Systems department enrolled in the Faculty of…

The aim of the current research is to reveal the relationship between pre-service teachers' attitudes towards compulsory English courses and their critical thinking skills. The study also investigates the effect of the participants' age, gender and department on their attitudes towards compulsory English courses and their critical thinking skills.…

The study sought to ascertain if critical thinking instruction delivered via the Flipped Classroom may improve students' EFL writing skills. In addition to determining if the present instructional model influences students' views of critical thinking and attitudes toward Flipped Learning integration, another goal is to determine whether students'…

Studies on critical thinking (CT) in education have been of paramount importance in recent decades to help individuals develop skills such as analyzing, synthesizing, higher-order thinking, and assessing. In line with such studies, this study aims to examine aspects of critical thinking dispositions of Turkish adult learners of English in a…

The aim of this study was to describe EFL learners' critical thinking levels and to examine the relationship between participants' critical thinking levels and selected variables such as gender, academic achievement in EFL, subject area, and self-reported reading. The overall design of the study was based on the quantitative research method. Data…

The present study aimed to determine critical thinking dispositions of pre-service Turkish language and primary teachers in terms of several variables by employing descriptive survey design. The study group consisted of 215 senior students attending Turkish Language Teaching and Primary Education Departments of Necatibey Faculty of Education at…

Recent developments in technology have changed the learner's profile and the learning outcomes. Today, with the emergence of higher-order thinking skills and computer literacy skills, teaching through traditional methods is likely to fail to achieve the learning outcomes. That is why; teachers and teacher candidates are expected to have computer…