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Your Country VS. the U.S.
Compare: the classroom in your country
the classroom in the U.S.
Hints: how do you learn?
lecture? Class discussion?
exam-oriented? quality-oriented?
difficult to express yourself? Difficult to
participate in discussion?
My experience
IN CHINA IN THE U.S.
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My experience
IN The U.S.
IN CHINA
CRITICAL THINKING!!!!!!
Difficulties for
International Students
How to ask myself higher order questions based
on the reading?
How can I answer them appropriately by using
critical thinking skills?
The concept of Critical
Thinking
(1) The ability to develop a capacity to reason
logically and cohesively

(2) The ability to question and challenge existing
knowledge and social order.
---Vandermensbrugghe (2004)
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Creation/
Prediction
Evaluation
Analysis
Application
Comprehension
Knowledge
Blooms
Taxonomy of
Critical Thinking
Practice/Application
Which orders are these questions fit in?
* e.g. Whats the Starbucks reading mainly about?
1) Why is Starbucks so successful among the world?
2) What would be your suggestion of another place to
sell Starbucks coffee and increase its profits?
Practice/Application
3) Why do people lie to each other?

4) What is your opinion about French
governments decision that all obvious religious
symbols would be banned from public schools?
Practice/Application
Review RRJ instruction
Which orders are these sentence frames fit in?
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Raise higher order
questions
Article: Americas Biggest Lottery
Winner
1
st
paragraph: I do
2
nd
-3
rd
: work in groups (level,
sentence frame, your question)
4th-7
th
: work individually