The Importance of Teaching British Civilization to Spark the Students’ Creative Historical Thinking Skill

Abstract

The aim of this research paper was to investigate some of the effective ways to stimulate the students’ creative historical thinking in EFL classrooms. A teacher of civilization adequately addresses major issues as they face a myriad of challenges and struggle both psychologically and instructionally, as to how to realistically incorporate Western past life into the students’ present life and to design an environment that encourages creativity or develop a systematic approach to teaching thinking skills as part of the university curricula. There are, however, many factors that result in the difficulty to introduce history studies to EFL classrooms.

In order to achieve this objective, the observational and analytical approaches were used. The examples that this research centred around were the Houses of Parliaments, Black Death, the Tudor Dynasty and assessing contradictory quotes written by authors of history. There are many lessons that can be drawn from these lectures despite the fact that they took place in the Medieval and Renaissance Ages. This research, then, raises so many questions as to how the students critically investigate the contradictory historical data and how they benefit from the ways, policies and measures taken by leaders in history to overcome some complicated situations.