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dc.identifier	ECF_article_11785
dc.title	Critical Thinking, Questioning and Reasoning as Inclusive Teaching Methods for English Language Learning with Gifted Students
dc.contributor.author	Azzalini Alice
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/elle/2023/3/critical-thinking-questioning-and-reasoning-as-inc/
dc.description.abstract	Critical thinking is becoming one of the basic foundations of modern teaching and learning: it implies not only complex (meta)cognitive abilities able to forge one’s personality, but it can be applied as a key-method during English classes in both receptive and productive skills. In addition, it has been confirmed that verbally gifted students show a high ability of thinking critically: an essential ingredient that, together with a strong questioning and reasoning attitude, can enrich traditional lessons conveying innovative ideas and supported argumentations, investigating facts and theories, nurturing personal criticism. For all these reasons, critical thinking applied to inclusive language learning could be a way to raise language teaching to higher levels, giving each student the possibility of becoming a consciuous builder of her/his own knowledge, and not merely a simple receiver.
dc.relation.ispartof	EL.LE
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 12 \| Issue 3 \| December 2023
dc.issued	2023-12-13
dc.dateAccepted	2023-03-01
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-01-13
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2280-6792
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/ELLE/2280-6792/2023/03/003
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Critical Thinking
dc.subject	English Language Learning and Teaching
dc.subject	Gifted Education

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Critical Thinking, Questioning and Reasoning as Inclusive Teaching Methods for English Language Learning with Gifted Students

Alice Azzalini Università degli Studi di Padova, Italia

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Critical thinking is becoming one of the basic foundations of modern teaching and learning: it implies not only complex (meta)cognitive abilities able to forge one’s personality, but it can be applied as a key-method during English classes in both receptive and productive skills. In addition, it has been confirmed that verbally gifted students show a high ability of thinking critically: an essential ingredient that, together with a strong questioning and reasoning attitude, can enrich traditional lessons conveying innovative ideas and supported argumentations, investigating facts and theories, nurturing personal criticism. For all these reasons, critical thinking applied to inclusive language learning could be a way to raise language teaching to higher levels, giving each student the possibility of becoming a consciuous builder of her/his own knowledge, and not merely a simple receiver.

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Dec. 13, 2023

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March 1, 2023

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Jan. 13, 2023

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Keywords: Critical Thinking • Gifted Education • English Language Learning and Teaching

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