The Enhancement of critical thinking within the cultural content in the algerian first year secondary school english textbook 'At the Crossroads'
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2020
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Oum-El-Bouaghi
Abstract
The present research focuses on the effectiveness of the implemented cultural components in the
Algerian first year secondary school textbook ‘At the Crossroads’ on learners’ critical thinking. It
highlights the correlation between teaching the culture in EFL situations, and how it affects
learners’ critical thinking. This research rises many questions such as: What is Culture? What are
the approaches, techniques and methods that should be followed while teaching Culture? What is
Critical Thinking? How to enhance learners’ critical thinking while teaching culture? The
present investigation is in fact based on the hypothesis that, the Algerian EFL textbook “At the
Cross Road” fosters learners’ critical thinking through the implementation of the cultural aspects.
The analysis of the textbook cultural input carried through a checklist developed by the
researchers and its findings, allow us to disconfirm the raised hypothesis. In the light of these
findings, we recommend that the Algerian teachers of English in EFL classes should explore
more opportunities of implementing critical thinking through teaching culture.
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Culture, Critical thinking, Textbook evaluation