Abstract
Most of the recent studies in 21st century has started to incorporate the effect of critical
thinking and it`s relation to the choice of teaching styles used by teachers. Critical thinking as the
ability to question, analyze , understand and reach into a solution to a specific problem as used by
teachers in language classroom .This paper has focused on EFL teachers teaching English as a
foreign language in Iraq and the methods they mostly employed in their language classrooms .For
this purpose 40 teachers were selected from Baghdad governorate from Al-Abid School and AlFawz secondary school. The two questionnaires were delivered online to the teachers in order to
make it easier for them because of the situation of the pandemic. The final results showed there is
a strong relation between teachers` critical thinking capacities or intelligences with their teaching
styles inside the classroom.
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Riyan Hadi Salih
University of Baghdad, Iraq
Dr. Bushra Saadoon Mohammed Al-Noori
University of Baghdad, Iraq
Received: 04-03-2021, Accepted: 10-04-2021, Published Online: 18-05-2021