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Greek Influence On Critical Thinking

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Chapter I Background and Purpose Critical Thinking (CT) is not regarded a novel teaching vision. Initially it emerged in Greek Empire by the method of questioning of Socrates approximately 2500 years ago (Rfaner, 2006). Since then this notion has highly developed. Today it has been globally and widely of great significance in educational frame works; thus, a vast number of teachers are willing to apply CT approach in their classes ( Asgharheidari & Tahriri,2015). Asgharheidari and Tahriri (2015) state that profound changes have occurred in the field of education these days. Once in teacher oriented classes along with mechanical and inflexible teaching approaches, learners exclusively served as passive receivers. To be more precise, they copied and …show more content…

Statement of Problem and Purpose of the Study Many studies have been conducted that have been investigated the effect of critical thinking on speaking skill (e.g. Farahani & Khodashenas, kishani, 2014; Malmir & Shoorcheh, 2012); however, in Iran up to this date few have examined the effect of critical thinking tasks on argumentative speaking and just the effect of critical thinking tasks on coherence in argumentative essay writing has been carried out ( Mehdipour & Vaghie, 2015). Giving information and requiring students to memorize empirical data should be changed because it doesn’t offer students opportunity to think and offer a creative answer (Birjandi & Bagherkazemi, 2010). Moreover, in order to find a logical reason for a complicated problem, students should think critically; thus, by conducting the critical thinking, speaking ability of students enhances dramatically and decides in arguments (Malmir & Shoorcheh, 2012). The majority of learners owing to memorization of facts are unaware of real debates as well as how to analyze information and draw sound conclusion, so the current study is going to investigate the impact of critical thinking tasks on argumentative speaking of intermediate EFL

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