STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPING CRITICAL READING AT THE UNIVERSITY STAGE

Abstract

The article provides a brief overview of critical reading and higher level thinking skills at an advanced stage of education. In modern society, even in everyday life people frequently deal with complicated public and political issues, make decisions, and solve problems. At the university stage lecturers are likely to enhance students’ skills and abilities of evaluating critically about what they see, hear or read thus making the learning process more effective. In addition in the age of “information explosion” students do not always feel confident. As a rule, this comes from accumulated information, which leads to misunderstanding of the text material and underestimation of situations. Thus, the educational material should be selected so that it arouses students’ interests and contribute to developing skills and abilities of critical thinking. In this sphere, the role of the teacher is decisive. When compiling educational programs for the university, it is necessary to take into account all possible tasks for the formation of critical reading and thinking skills.