El desarrollo del pensamiento crítico en ELE y su evaluación

Ascaso, Samanta; Atienza Cerezo, Encarna

El desarrollo del pensamiento crítico en ELE y su evaluación

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Ascaso S, Atienza E. El desarrollo del pensamiento crítico en ELE y su evaluación. e-Aesla. 2018;(4):122-32.

Abstract

The purpose of this project is twofold: to define the notion of critical thinking and find ways to implement and evaluate it in the classroom of Spanish as a foreign language, understanding the evaluation as a learning activity as well. This study develops from the sociocultural theory of second language learning (Lantolf, 2000, 2006; Van Lier, 2010, among others). Regarding the concept of critical thinking, this study makes use of the theoretical and methodological postulates from critical discourse studies (Van Dijk, 2003; Wodak, 2009; Fairclough, 1995, among others) and following the same line as in Wallace’s works (1998) about critical language awareness. This study presents, also, guidelines for a didactic proposal that promotes the development of the critical thinking and its evaluation as a part of the learning process (Veslin et al. 1981; Nunziati, 1990; Black, 1998; Black et al., 2003; Stobart, 2008, among others).