Development of students’ thinking in the course of mastering educational subjects

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of the students' thinking development. An innovative approach to the development of students' thinking in the very course of mastering specific disciplines is proposed. Such development is possible through special tasks that require mental activities that invest into different types of thinking and intellectual abilities. Frequent repetition of such actions in the process of solving academic subject problems successfully, first in a controlled external and then in a self-controlled internal plan, leads to the gradual integration of internal actions into the mental resources of the individual. A specific example of tasks for the development of analytical, hypothetical, critical thinking and key intellectual ability to generalize within the discipline "Foreign language of a professional orientation" is given. The prospect of research lies in the practical use of the discovered thinking patterns development for the purpose of academic subject tasks creation.