Developing critical thinking skills by students through active methods of the study of literature

Abstract

The paper deals with ways of developing critical thinking by means of literary works. It represents a number of analytical, searching, and cognitive tools aimed at activating thinking operations in the process of reading and interpreting fiction texts. It also focuses on the active methods of studying literary words (event analysis, fishbone structures, socionist analysis) which develop student critical thinking. The results of the research have proved that modern openness of literary education allows diversifying the ways and tools of studying linguistic and fiction “fabric” of the literary text.

Critical Literacy in an EFL Setting: Lecturers’ Perception

“…Making the learning material suit the students' English mastery and building students' prior knowledge is important in helping the students to comprehend the text being read (Sason et al, 2020;Smith et al, 2021). When they understand the text, there is a possibility that they will involve in the discussion about the text (Kovpik, 2020). In other words, it means that there is a tendency for the students to become more active during the discussion session if they understand the text well.…”

Development and Evaluation of Fishbone-Based Advanced Computational Thinking (FACT) Pedagogy: A Teacher-Student Collaborative Learning Environment in Engineering and Science Education

“…This process was implemented in understanding of industrial technology targeting vocational category of university students. The active keywords namely, event analysis, fishbone structures and socionist analysis were discussed which were used to develop the critical thinking of students (Kovpik, 2020). To observe the supervision practises and review student teaching observation and evaluation protocols, a team (Sullivan et al, 2020) conducted a brainstorm using fishbone concept and a fishbone diagram was generated which helped to arrive a problem statement.…”