Abstract: Due to their scientific nature, courses in linguistics present a unique opportunity to teach higher-order thinking skills in the classroom and encourage students to interact and think critically about the material. In the present study, two courses of field methods for advanced undergraduate linguistics students were designed to target and both formally and informally assess the students’ ability to understand, apply, and synthesize information. In both courses, the students showed marked improvement in their ability to use higher-order thinking skills to identify, analyze, and report information on a language unfamiliar to them.
Field Methods: Higher-Order Thinking Skills; Haya.
Title: Teaching Higher-Order Critical Thinking Skills through Linguistics
Author: Christopher D. Sams
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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