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Here is a collection of activities for learning Spanish. When critical thinking in a second language, it's important to consider how background knowledge may not bee in the target language, but you can help students produce language by studying grammar in conjunction with reading or listening. A lot of second language acquisition scholars are debunking the notion that learning grammar is the pre-requisite to critical thinking in the target language. They can develop side by side with lots of structure and support from the teacher!

Since background knowledge is essential for critical thinking, that means we have to do some pre-teaching with our lessons! With regards to teaching reading, here are some strategies that you could even commit to memory. I'm sure there are many other strategies as well. :)

Since background knowledge is essential for critical thinking, that means we have to do some pre-teaching with our lessons! With regards to teaching reading, here are some strategies that you could even commit to memory. I'm sure there are many other strategies as well. :)

Since factual knowledge is needed for critical thinking skills, I thought that OMG facts might be a good addition to my list. However, since this is a curious website on the wild wild web, I figure that it might be useful in a lesson about how citations and peer review work in academia. That is to say, you could ask students to consider how we know that this information is true. You can even teach them the word "epistemology"! It's also kind of fun, and I reckon the information is generally considered true.

Since factual knowledge is needed for critical thinking skills, I thought that OMG facts might be a good addition to my list. However, since this is a curious website on the wild wild web, I figure that it might be useful in a lesson about how citations and peer review work in academia. That is to say, you could ask students to consider how we know that this information is true. You can even teach them the word "epistemology"! It's also kind of fun, and I reckon the information is generally considered true.

I liked the point in chapter 2 that while we all want to encourage deeper thinking, that's not possible without knowing the facts. I've been pondering what are the best ways to encourage deeper thinking WHILE learning the necessary facts. This page has a lot of good ideas within.