Integrating Critical Thinking Skills in Teaching English Language Receptive skills

Abstract

Learning a foreign language is not only mastering vocabulary and grammar rules. It is important that students know how to give opinions, give sound reasons for those opinions, and evaluate and judge on specific situation. This is possible by integrating critical thinking skills into teaching English language receptive skills. It explains how to enrich and develop students' thinking and implementing it in the educational process and lifelong learning. The basic aim of the current research is to provide suggestions for integrating critical thinking skills into teaching English language receptive skills. The current research ends with the conclusion that it is suggested to integrate critical thinking skills in teaching English language receptive skills for its valuable effect on developing students thinking, interaction and awareness as well as making them more interactive in the learning process.