Article

Received 29.09.2024

Revised 25.02.2025

Accepted 29.03.2025

Retrieved from Iss. 117, P. 1, 2025

Pages 36 -43

Dubrova, O., & Harkusha, I. (2025). SOFT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT IN ESP CLASSES: CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING. Automobile Roads and Road Construction, (117.1), 36-43. https://doi.org/10.33744/0365-8171-2025-117.1-036-043

SOFT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT IN ESP CLASSES: CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING

Oksana Dubrova Inna Harkusha

This article investigates the problem of soft skills development of students in technical higher education institutions, in particular the development of critical and creative thinking in ESP classes. Bloom’s taxonomy, which presents the process of thinking formation, is considered. The concepts of critical and creative thinking are analyzed, and the properties of these types of thinking are described. Moreover, the effectiveness of interactive methods for solving the problem of critical and creative thinking development of modern students, who are representatives of technical progress generation, is proven. As a result, the process of the formation of critical and creative thinking in ESP classes with the application of non-standard approaches, forms, methods and teaching techniques, is described

soft skills, ESP, critical thinking, creative thinking, interactive methods, online learning, non-standard teaching methods
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