How to encourage critical thinking through storytelling
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By Dr Jeremy Koay
Critical thinking is widely agreed on as an important component in language classrooms. But what is critical thinking? Yang and Gamble (2013, p. 398) state that critical thinking involves at least four skills:
- metacognition (awareness of one’s own thought processes)
- ...
What is Children's Literature?
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By Dr Jeremy Koay
A limited view
Children’s literature is usually associated with colourful pictures, fairy tales and nursery rhymes. In some families, bedtime stories are a ritual. Some teachers believe that reading stories written for children is useful for second language (L2) extensive...