Petryk L. FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ CRITICAL THINKING DEVELOPMENT BY MEANS OF MEDIA
Petryk Lada, Senior Lecturer of Foreign Languages and Methodology of Their Teaching Department, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, 18/2 bvld I. Shamo, 02147 Kyiv, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://doi.org/10.28925/2078-1687.2017.4.8490

Abstract  

The paper considers aspects of future primary school teacher’s critical thinking development in the process of foreign language teaching that is being fulfilled in the process of acquiring the content of professionally oriented courses. Among them there is a course «Foreign language with methodology of its teaching». Methodical support includes media technologies, media tools (traditional and new technologies) and media messages which promote critical thinking development of a future primary school teacher. A brief review of the key concepts of the study justifies that the ability to think critically is the basis of person’s media literacy. Media messages are considered as didactic means in foreign language classes because key ideas about this kind of messages provide a basis for semantics and actualization of lexical units and grammatical phenomena. They are useful for discussions, interviews, essay writing, content interpreting, analyzing, comparing, ranking of facts, simulating situations etc. The author notes that such organizational and pedagogical conditions as the systematic implementation of media technologies, the establishing a favorable microclimate and a foreign language environment, the change of lecturer’s role of from a repeater to a consultant and the technical provision of the educational process set up favorable conditions for the integration of the formation of foreign-language communicative competence, new media skills and the future primary school teacher’s critical thinking development.

Keywords: critical thinking;  foreign languages;  future primary school teacher;  media messages.

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