Scrabble as a Tool for Engineering Students’ Critical Thinking Skills Development

Abstract

Without any doubt, critical thinking is essential for modern well-educated and creative engineers. Teaching students how to think more productively, generate and evaluate ideas is vital in contemporary engineering education. The paper is aimed at investigating development of engineering students’ critical thinking skills with Scrabble Board Game. The paper proposes analysis of some theoretical sources, observation, teaching experiences of Board Game Scrabble application as a tool for development of engineering students’ critical thinking skills. Findings and results demonstrate strategies of enhancing thinking skills in the process of EFL teaching with Board Game Scrabble. According to the author's practice and research within the system of higher technical education in Tomsk Polytechnic University, Board Game Scrabble is a very powerful teaching tool which focuses on engineering students’ creative critical thinking, logic and analytical skills.