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  1. Learning how to think like a linguist: Linguistic reasoning as a focal

    1 INTRODUCTION. Over the past decades, various linguists from all over the world have attempted to restore the bridge between the scientific study of language and language education (Trotzke, 2023).According to Hudson (), the bridge between the two started to disintegrate in the 20th century.He considers it an important task for linguists in the 21st century to ensure that scientific knowledge ...

  2. The Role of Critical Thinking in Professional Development of Linguists

    The authors have analyzed Critical Thinking in the domain of Applied Linguistics with the focus on interaction of CT and students' personal qualities vital for their professional development. In our paper we consider professional background and personal qualities of students and base our research on the competencies which are important for ...

  3. Fostering critical thinking in English-as-a-second-language classrooms

    This is an important research gap to fill because critical-thinking cultivation is a developmental ... have called for further research addressing the potential linguistic challenges to critical-thinking development in the ESL context. The study reported herein thus developed a critical-thinking programme for primary ESL learners that features ...

  4. Essentials of a Theory of Language Cognition

    Psycholinguistics is now a highly developed field (e.g., Gaskell, 2007). It has had ... argues that while the brain is a necessary condition for higher order thinking, the most important mental activities develop through interaction within these social and material environments. ... long, straight furrow, arguing against cognitive and ...

  5. PDF The Textual Expression of Critical Thinking in Phd Discussions in

    This article reports a study that examines the textual expression of critical thinking in five PhD Discussion chapters from the field of Applied Linguistics. The term critical thinking itself arouses multiple expectations and has multiple definitions arising from different philosophical and scientific traditions.

  6. What Is Cognitive Linguistics?

    Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book ...

  7. Critical Theory and Linguistics

    Abstract. The relationship between critical theory and linguistics goes back at least as far as the 1960s. During this time, language began to be seen as a central medium through which the world - including its hierarchies and relations of power - is constructed. This entry describes the history of critical approaches to language (or ...

  8. Critical Applied Linguistics

    Introduction. Critical applied linguistics is a field of inquiry and practice that can be understood in several ways. It brings a critical focus—where the critical is understood as social critique rather than critical thinking—to applied linguistic work. A central goal is to connect questions of domination (contingent and contextual effects ...

  9. Linguistic factors in critical thinking: Developing thinking skills in

    Linguistic factors in critical thinking ... Critical thinking is often taken as the demonstration of the learner to think critically and originally. Often, it is overlooked that the object of examination is the 'surface structure' of the spoken or printed sentences, but the 'deep structure' is not consideration. ...

  10. Critical Language Education

    Critical linguistics focuses on linguistic choices in speech and writing and their effects; critical discourse analysis focuses on how these choices are affected by the processes and the social conditions in which texts are received and produced; critical language awareness is a classroom application of these theories to teaching and critical ...

  11. Critical Discourse Analysis in Applied Linguistics: A Methodological

    The critical turn arrived in the field of applied linguistics in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the field has since witnessed a burgeoning body of literature drawing on a variety of analytical frameworks and methodological approaches that are loosely labeled as critical discourse analysis (CDA).

  12. PDF Critical thinking of English linguistics on English cultivation and

    Critical thinking, a term from Socrates, can be deemed an ability to perceive, criticize, analyze, and reflect. It is known that thinking is even more relevant today with the proliferation of information from all sources, such as social media [1]. Through critical thinking, people could form a flexible, systematic analysis and assessment of ...

  13. (PDF) Critical applied linguistics in the 2020s

    Abstract. Critical applied linguistics remains deeply relevant today, arguably more than ever, but it needs constant renewal. This paper returns to these concerns to assess where this project has ...

  14. PDF Why Study Linguistics at Western

    encourages linguistics students to think critically about what they're studying —it's hard to take so many diverse and often conflicting ways of looking at the world at face value. Curiosity and critical thinking are, I would argue, the most important traits a journalist can possess, and studying linguistics helped me develop those in spades.

  15. The Mediating Role of Critical Thinking Abilities in the Relationship

    Therefore, critical thinking ability reflects their linguistic skill represented by their writing, which reflects the background knowledge. The Relationship Between Critical Thinking Abilities and Learning Strategies. Literature on the relationship between critical thinking and language learning strategies is not much.

  16. Do we need critical educational linguistics?

    Over the past 30 years, the term "criticality" has become increasingly common in studies of educational and applied linguistics. Derived originally from the work of the Frankfurt School and widened by the linguistic turn in the writing of Habermas, the first linguistic sub-field was Critical Discourse Analysis, proposed by British scholars. In 1990, Alastair Pennycook called for critical ...

  17. PDF The Evolution of Linguistics: A Critical Review of Key Theories and

    As a review article, the methods for this paper involve a critical examination and analysis of key theories and paradigms that have shaped the field of linguistics over time. The aricle draws on a wide range of sources, including seminal texts in linguistics, research studies, and scholarly articles. The research methodology for this article is ...

  18. Linguistic landscape, critical language awareness and critical thinking

    Critical language awareness and critical thinking in the linguistic landscape. ... a reflection of redefinition and rediscov ery the field has . seen over the ... Critical thinking: Why is it so ...

  19. Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought

    The second dimension concerns the degree of importance of language for thought, from claims that linguistic representations are necessary for thinking (such that without access to these ...

  20. Critical Linguistics

    Social Sciences. Critical Linguistics is defined as a school of discourse analysis that focuses on the relationship between linguistic choices in media texts, especially news, and the production of ideology. It aims to expose how media ideology contributes to maintaining social inequality and oppression by analyzing linguistic features that ...

  21. Key Topics in Applied Linguistics

    About Key Topics in Applied Linguistics. Books in this series provide critical accounts of the most important topics in applied linguistics, conceptualised as an interdisciplinary field of research and practice dealing with practical problems of language and communication. Some topics have been the subject of applied linguistics for many years ...

  22. How might language affect critical thinking performance?

    One way of understanding this possible influence of language proficiency on critical thinking performance is in terms of cognitive cost (i.e., the mental resources cost associated with task performance). Language processing entails the use of cognitive resources in working memory (Baddeley, 1986, Baddeley, 1998), and lower proficiency in a ...

  23. The importance of vocabulary in teaching and learning in applied

    Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives has been widely praised since first publication for the breadth, depth and clarity of its approach and is a key text for postgraduate students and ...