عنوان

Some Problematic ''Channels'' In the Teaching of Critical Thinking in Current LI Composition Textbooks:

شماره

LA8bn658q0

عنوان اصلي

Some Problematic ''Channels'' In the Teaching of Critical Thinking in Current LI Composition Textbooks:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ramanathan, Vai; Kaplan, Robert B.

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

Implications for L2 Student-Writers

متن يادداشت

Advanced writing courses in manyfreshman composition programs stress the importance of teaching critical thinking skills where students-both LI and L2-are encouraged to examine and question the social world they inhabit. Derived from an analysis of 12 current freshman composition textbooks, we identify three common "channels" through which student-writers are inducted into the critical thinking practice. These three channels are: (1) using informal logic as a way of developing students' reasoning strategies, (2) developing and refining students' problem solving skills, and (3) developing students' ability to analyze hidden assumptions in 'everyday arguments. ' This study calls attention to the problematic nature ofthese "channels " and to some implications oftransferring these channels in L2 writing classrooms. We believe that critical thinking is largely a sociocognitive practice that draws significantly on shared cultural practices and norms that mainstream students have (had) access to. ESL student-writers, however, given their diverse sociocultural backgrounds, have not necessarily been socialized in ways that would make induction into critical thinking a (relatively) smooth process (Atkinson & Ramanathan, 1995). Using critical thinking textbooks (written by and large for LI students) then, in L2 writing classrooms has complex consequences. Based on our current examination and previous study (Ramanathan & Kaplan, 1996a), we propose a discipline oriented approach to teaching writing, especially for non-native student-writers.

تاريخ نشر

1996

عنوان

UCLA

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y