A critical review of Learning to think and thinking to learn

This article is an attempt to have a critical review of a globally-known textbook entitled Learning to think and thinking to learn written by Stuart Maclure and Peter Davies. Although the ideas seem to be quite challenging and revolutionary, the writer tries to question some conceptions proposed by the author. It seems essential for both language teachers and language learners to know how to think. However, it was posed by the writer that first we should learn how to think before our endeavor to employ our thinking for further learning. Some claims made by the author sound to be plausible to be implemented and adopted for both Native and non-native speakers of English. Some abstract reformulation of constructive concepts and percepts do not seem to suffice. More grounds are required to be made and stakeholders, language assessors, curriculum developers, and syllabus designers may be cooperatively called for more crystal and direct implementation of learning to think and accordingly thinking to learn.

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CoRT , textbooks , reformulation , concepts , percepts , revolutionary , challenging , constructive , endeavor , surriculum developers , syllabus designers