ABSTRACT
The given thesis proposes a new pedagogical model for language education aimed at helping learners become competent problem solvers of linguistic, sociolinguistic, pragmatic and other kinds of problems when no typical solution is available. The thesis comprises three chapters. The first chapter considers current approaches to teaching thinking in the context of the driving problem of modern education. The second chapter describes the Thinking Approach to language teaching and learning - a manifestation of the proposed pedagogical model. The third chapter presents the results of the empirical study into the efficacy of the proposed model.
Key words: Thinking Approach, inventive thinking, language teaching, OTSM, TRIZ
Alexander Sokol is the author of the Thinking Approach to
language teaching and learning that aims at an integrated
development of both language and thinking skills of learners.
The most updated information about the approach can be found at the
TA project website
(http://www.thinking-approach.org). The TA project is concerned with the development of educational technologies necessary for this kind of teaching and mechanisms of implementing
these technologies with various groups of learners.
