YOUNG ADOLESCENT EFL LEARNERS’ PERSPECTIVES ON CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

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Hasan Bedir

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Critical Thinking Skills (CTs) are among the 21st century learning skills, and schools are expected to equip the students with these skills.  Turkey has been restructuring the educational system in order to improve the quality of education which enables students to acquire such learning skills as critical and creative thinking, problem solving, and collaboration. The present study based on the perspectives of Young Adolescent EFF learners presents findings on the students’ awareness of CTs, and whether or not they apply them to a given task, and if there is any conflict between knowledge and application of CTs. The findings showed that the students, despite their quiet well awareness, they did not effectively apply CTs. The problems they encountered were assumed to be resulted from lacking in metacognitive knowledge.

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Vol. 3 No. 3 (2016)
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Hasan Bedir

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hasan Bedir is a graduate of ELT Department Faculty of Education, Cukurova University. He completed his MA and Ph.D at the same university. He is teaching Educational Research Methods, Teaching English to Young Learners and Material Evaluation and Development at undergraduate level, Critical Thinking in ELT at MA and Current Trends in Teacher Education at Ph.D.

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