FEATURES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES TO STUDENTS OF NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITIES: STRATEGIES AND METHODS OF IMPLEMENTATION

Abstract

The article studies types of educational activities aimed at developing critical thinking among students. The work shows that when teaching a foreign language, it is necessary to use the four types of reading presented, since each type of reading develops certain critical thinking skills. Critical thinking is a system of judgment that is used to analyze things and information, interpret phenomena, evaluate events, and also to subsequently draw objective conclusions. Critical thinking is an important soft skill. A person with developed critical thinking has a whole set of skills – observation and the ability to justify their point of view, focus on studying information and the ability to apply analytical skills in a variety of situations. The author points out that reading professionally oriented texts in a foreign language allows to deepen knowledge in one’s specialty, allows students to expand their vocabulary, etc. As a support, a foreign language text becomes a model of foreign language academic professionally oriented discourse for students, as well as an incentive for extracting from it the information necessary for professional activity.