Fostering lateral thinking in secondary school students through online written English instruction
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https://doi.org/10.17721/2663-0303.2025.2.05Keywords:
lateral thinking, de Bono's methods, online communication, textbook, NUSAbstract
The article examines various approaches to defining lateral thinking. The author demonstrates the importance of developing lateral thinking for realising the competence potential of the New Ukrainian School. The article examines de Bono's (1970) concept of creativity and the relationship between lateral thinking and creativity. The author also reviews the current Ukrainian and international works on lateral thinking; compares lateral and vertical thinking; analyses the writing exercises from various authentic textbooks for teaching English in secondary school; characterises the conditions for using multiple methods developed by de Bono (2017) in teaching online English written communication; specifies the aspects of online communication that a teacher takes into account when using de Bono's methods. The author concludes that de Bono's methods can be used as early as the adaptation stage of basic secondary education, with further expansion during the teaching cycle of basic subjects.
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