%0 Journal Article %A Fonseca Jully and Chia Maribel and RodrÃguez Ilba %D 2016 %J International Journal of Educational and Pedagogical Sciences %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 109, 2016 %T Ads on Social Issues: A Tool for Improving Critical Thinking Skills in a Foreign Language Classroom %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10003529 %V 109 %X This paper is a qualitative research report. A group of students form a public university in a small town in Colombia participated in this study which aimed at describing to what extend the use of social ads, published on the internet, helped to develop their critical thinking skills. Students’ productions, field notes, video recordings and direct observation were the instruments and techniques used by the researches in order to gather the data which was analyzed under the principles of grounded theory and triangulation. The implementation of social ads into the classroom evidenced a noticeable improvement in students’ ability to interpret and argue social issues, as well as, their self-improvement in oral and written production in English, as a foreign language. %P 260 - 268