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Your Name and Title:       Fariha Asif

School or Organization Name:     King Abdulaziz University

Co-Presenter Name(s):      Not Applicable
 

Area of the World from Which You Will Present:    Saudi Arabia
 

Language in Which You Will Present:   English

Target Audience(s):    Teachers, Students, Curriculum Designers 

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Linguists claim that language one learns has significant impact on the way he thinks. There are found profound correlations between language development and cognitive development.

Owing to hectic schedule and overburdened course coverage scenario faced by the EFL teachers all around the globe, the learner’s individuality is extensively and miserably suppressed. Learner has no choice of thinking and evaluation on his/her part. Learner is just forced to rote or adhere blindly what teacher stuffs him/her. This damages his creativity, commitment and thinking skill. It is the need of the hour that EFL teachers must know how these segments of learning can help learners develop positive skills among them and the teachers can become of cause of inculcating and infusing in learners the true spirit of learning English with over all paraphernalia. Learners must be aware of what they are learning; they must be given opportunity to develop their thinking according to the target language culture and environment. Teachers must be committed in imparting and urging thinking skill by using creative methodology and full proficiency and commitment. It is an admitted fact that language does have influence on our thoughts. It is often suggested that the language we learn enables us to carry out abstract inferences on cognitive level, and helps us shape the external world into distinct categories as in the domain of object categories.

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