• IRIN SULTANA

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Creative and Critical thinking is an approach to the teaching of ESL classrooms that emphasizes communication and interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of learning a language. Rather than a gain, learning English (as a second language) can become a loss if learners are not motivated to think carefully about the cultural and political aspects of the language they are learning or those embedded in the syllabus, materials, methods, and testing the language. Very little has been done to make students aware of the presence of inequalities in the texts they read, the expressions they use and the programs they watch. This paper presents in favor of integrating critically thinking in language teaching methodology so that students can critically examine the cultural implications of texts, approaches and methods. While the first section of the essay explains what critical and creative thinking is and what it aims to do, the second section discusses how to include critical and creative thinking in language teaching classrooms by providing an example of a detailed plan.

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