Proficiency in a Foreign Language and Critical Thinking Skills: the Relationship Between a Foreign Language and Critcal Thinking Skills

This study focuses mainly on the relationship between proficiency in a foreign language and critical thinking skills. In Adult Second Language Acquisition (SLA)process learners utilize various language learning strategies, for example,inferencing, hypothesis testing, deducting, etc.,which correspond to the characteristics of critical thinking. The effective use of these language learning strategies may contribute to success in language language learning as well as critical thinking.