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Direct linkMahdi Zalani; Nouroddin Yousofi – Smart Learning Environments, 2024
This study examined the influence of using Instagram on EFL learners' critical thinking in language institutes. The participants were 98 students (40 males and 58 females) studying English at three branches of a language institute in Iran who were 20-24 years old and shared the same L1 which was Persian. They were selected through purposive…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Critical Thinking, Social Media
Ünaldi, Ihsan; Yüce, Erkan – Adult Learning, 2021
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…
Descriptors: Correlation, Vocabulary Development, Grammar, Language Proficiency
Download full textMuzaffer Barin – World Journal of Education, 2019
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.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Thinking Skills, English (Second Language), Critical Thinking
Yükselir, Ceyhun – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2020
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…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Critical Thinking, Business English, English for Academic Purposes
Ordem, Eser – English Language Teaching, 2017
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…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Afshar, Hassan Soodmand; Movassagh, Hossein – Language Learning Journal, 2017
The study investigated the relationship among critical thinking, strategy use and university achievement. To this end, 76 English major students sat the California Critical Thinking Skills Test and filled out Oxford's Strategy Inventory for Language Learning. Participants' Grade Point Averages were regarded as their university achievement. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
