Effective reading as a means to critical thinking: Alternative strategies for teachers and studentsmotivation

Abstract:

“Don’t just teach your kids to read, teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything”. George Carlin. The purpose of this study is to recommend alternatives aimed to improve the motivation for reading in the EFL students in Ecuadorian high schools, in order to help them develop critical thinking. In Ecuador, people are not used to read in their native language; therefore, using this skill in a second language is challenging. One of the reasons why Ecuadorians do not read is the limited instruction on how to read critically. Students do not have the opportunity to develop high order thinking skills because reading instruction is restricted to simple gap filling, true or false, and matching exercises. Furthermore, at present, the National Curriculum for EFL focuses on the development of basic interpersonal communicative skills (BICS). This fact has prevented teachers and students from developing academic language skills (Ministerio de Educacion del Ecuador, 2012)

Año de publicación:

2017

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