by Roger Drury |
Responding to News Stories
This is a shorthand list of several ways to do critical analysis.
Resource Type: Activities
Audience: University
Audience Language Proficiency: Intermediate, Advanced
Duration: One assignment or assignments through a semester
Materials And Technology:
In oral skills, reading, and even integrated skills classes, I have students listen to/read news stories.
In our academic program, we encourage critical thinking, so I have this handout that lists several critical thinking strategies. I'll have students use the full range of these strategies over the course of a session.
Objective:
- Listening (and Speaking)
- Reading
- Integrated Skills
Outcome:
By practicing these various approaches to critical thinking, students should have a better understanding of the range of analytical approaches.
Activity Description: In our academic program, we encourage critical thinking, so I developed this list of several critical thinking stragegies.
I give the list to students at the beginning of the session and review the strategies with examples.
Through the rest of our sessoin, I have students watch, listen to or read news articles They do a critical response to one of these regularly, and I have them use a different strategy for each response, identifying it by its number and name.
Supporting Files:
Responding To News Stories.pdf
TESOL Interest Section: Computer-Assisted Language Learning