by Bojana Nikic Vujic and Maja Jerkovic ELTA Serbia

1. 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to PlansImproving Reading and Speaking Skills through Critical Thinking by BojanaNikicVujic and MajaJerkovic ELTA Serbia

2. We are……teachers/ teacher trainers/ editors of ELTA Journal/ voracious readers/ interested in medicine/ alumnae of University of Oregon – Critical Thinking in the EFL Curriculum… What brought us together is the fact that we share a lot in common! 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

3. Acknowledgments 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

4. Session outline • Warm up • What is critical reading and speaking? • Non-critical vs. Critical Reading • Intellectual standards • Inference • Bloom's Taxonomy Revised • Bloom’s Taxonomy Application • Promoting CT • Wrap up 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

5. Warm up- Odd one out penny gold watch chain 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

6. What is critical reading? Critical reading is not simply close and careful reading. To read critically, one must actively recognize and analyze evidence upon the page. 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

7. Critical reading means that a reader applies certain processes, models, questions, and theories that result in enhanced clarity and comprehension. Critical reading is an analytic activity. The Tools of Critical Reading Analysis and Inference 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

8. Non-critical vs. Critical Reading • Non -critical readers look for facts. They memorize, learn the facts, accept existing interpretation • Critical readers realize that texts provides only one portrayal of the facts, one individual’s viewpoint. Critical reading is a technique for discovering information and ideas within a text. Critical readers recognize not only what a text says, but also how that text portrays the subject matter. 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

9. Intellectual standards Critical readers • CLARITY-look beyond to see if the reasons are clear • ACCURACY-check whether information is accurate • RELEVANCE-can say if the information is relevant • DEPTH-know if the authordeals with the depth of the issue • BREADTH-understand whether the author approaches the topic from multiple viewpoints • LOGIC-decide if the text makes sense 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

10. Inference is a mental process by which we reach a conclusion based on specific evidence. "She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this result." Inference: Evidence: Inference 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

11. Inference "There were two possessions in which they both took a mighty pride. One was his gold watch that had been his father's and his grandfather's. The other was her hair.“ • Inference: • Evidence: 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

12. Bloom's Taxonomy Revised 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

13. Remembering Recalling information, recognizing, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

14. Understanding Explaining ideas or concepts, interpreting, summarizing, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

15. Applying Using information in a familiar situation, implementing, carrying out, using, executing 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

16. Analyzing Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships, comparing, organizing, deconstructing, interrogating, finding 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

17. Evaluating Justifying a decision or course of action, checking, hypothesizing, critiquing, experimenting, judging 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

18. Creating Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things, designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing. 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

19. Possible activities 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

20. Remembering Potential activities: make a list of main events or timeline events, characters, name any piece of information you can remember 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

21. Understanding Potential activities: retell the story, list the main ideas, write a summary 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

22. Applying Potential activities: compare, make a diorama scrapbook to illustrate the story, make a puzzle or a game about the topic 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

23. Analyzing Potential activities: • design a questionnaire to gather information, • conduct an investigation to support your view, • review/analysis of the work 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

24. Evaluating Potential activities: conduct a debate, panel discussion, argumentative presentation 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

25. Creating Potential activities: write an essay (e.g. about your feelings in relation to the story), make a role play, make a talk show 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

26. Activities for Promoting CT • Think-Pair-Share • ConcepTests • Minute Paper • Buzz Groups • Hearing • Opinion Vote • Fishbowl • Network • Onion ring • Hearing • Star 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

27. Wrap up - Application 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans

28. Thank you! 23rd IATEFL Hungary Conference: From Trends to Plans