Promoting critical thinking through debates about the internal conflict in Colombia in the EFL classroom with 9th graders
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2020-02-26
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Events of recent Colombian history deserve the attention of all disciplines. The
purpose of the study reported here is to understand how debates may promote critical
thinking in a class of ninth graders of Bogotá. In the diagnosis stage, a lack of knowledge of the Colombian conflict was identified. With a participatory action research and collecting
data by means of interviews, questionnaires and transcriptions of the debates we recorded
the progress learners made in acquisition of information, reflection, analysis and structuring
of arguments. In the pedagogical intervention we used four selected readings and four
videos originally written in the English language. The contents and its discussion did not
only inform, but also support language development. This internship expects to fill some of
the gaps of knowledge that mark the learners’ understanding of their context, their behaviors,
and axiological schemes.
Resumen
Events of recent Colombian history deserve the attention of all disciplines. The
purpose of the study reported here is to understand how debates may promote critical
thinking in a class of ninth graders of Bogotá. In the diagnosis stage, a lack of knowledge of the Colombian conflict was identified. With a participatory action research and collecting
data by means of interviews, questionnaires and transcriptions of the debates we recorded
the progress learners made in acquisition of information, reflection, analysis and structuring
of arguments. In the pedagogical intervention we used four selected readings and four
videos originally written in the English language. The contents and its discussion did not
only inform, but also support language development. This internship expects to fill some of
the gaps of knowledge that mark the learners’ understanding of their context, their behaviors,
and axiological schemes.
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Critical thinking, Debates, Social awareness, Post-conflict in Colombia