Critical Language Awareness in Pedagogic Context

Autor/in	Ali, Shamim
Titel	Critical Language Awareness in Pedagogic Context
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 4 (2011) 4, S.28-35 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Metalinguistics; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Critical Reading; Discourse Analysis; Teaching Methods; Critical Thinking; Thinking Skills; Pretests Posttests; Comparative Analysis; Program Effectiveness; Student Motivation; Graduate Students; Questionnaires; Student Attitudes; Pakistan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Metalanguage; Metasprache; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Kritisches Lesen; Diskursanalyse; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kritisches Denken; Denkfähigkeit; Schulische Motivation; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Fragebogen; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	This study was designed to investigate the significance of developing students' critical language awareness through explicit teaching methodology of some procedures of critical discourse analysis. The researcher integrated critical activities into her teaching and students' learning process. The study was planned prudently to discover the procedure of encoding and decoding of the writer's message and to teach students the skill of inferencing evaluating and explaining through higher-order thinking processes. The participants of this study were 18 Mphil students of English Linguistics studying in NUML. The post-test revealed that the participants' power of critical thinking increased in comparison to the pre-test. Their motivation level was also enhanced and they were able to decode the message of the text. They were able to deal with challenging tasks rather than mere passive tasks. It was concluded that about 90% of the students' critical language awareness rose after becoming familiar with CDA [Critical Discourse Analysis] techniques. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01