Enhancing critical thinking through ICTS in the LMD System: The case of Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University

Abstract

Starting from the assumption that learning is a mental process shaped by cognitive and metacognitive capacities and that the LMD promotes developing competency, this work unfolds the role of this newly introduced system in enhancing critical thinking. This paper highlights the way Information Communication Technologies are used in our university and exhibits their contribution in developing critical thinking. For this, we will primarily study different elements that enhance critical thinking and its social function, and then move to the role Information Communication Technologies play in its development. The final step analyses fourth semester’s students’ outcomes and drawbacks when dealing with this module in the department of English.

Keywords

• critical thinking
• learning
• ICTs
• LMD
• EFL
• contexts