HAYEF: Journal of Education
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SUGGESTIONS FOR CRITICAL THINKING AND CREATIVE WRITING METHOD THROUGH LITERARY WORKS IN ELT /AND NOTES ON CREATING A BOOK PROJECT

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Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy Department

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Maltepe University, Prep School

HAYEF: Journal of Education 2006; 3: 151-167
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An interactive program that pays attention to critical thinking, interpretation, discussion and creativity in teaching English language is mostly observed to be ignored in the programs of prep schools or English language courses. This may be simply because, the main objective is to teach students grammatical rules by the help of prototype written works only, in a limited time. Therefore; most of the time, books and their methods used in teaching English keep limited attitudes in teaching the critical thinking. In line with these facts, the main purpose of this study is to make a suggestion for a model on how to use literary works in teaching English more effectively to open a way to more creative classroom activities enriching critical thinking of the students and letting them see different viewpoints as well as improving their abstracting capacity. Apart from that, an alternative book project that contains both language teaching and critical thinking at the same time will be discussed.

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