Here is a series of online and printed references dedicated to the use of thinking skills in the teaching of MFL. A short description accompanies each entry.

• Using thinking skills in MFL: Gifted and talented students. National Curriculum online MFL site. "Developing pupils' ability to reflect on their own learning can help them progress. Activities in modern foreign languages can encourage pupils to reflect on their own thinking processes and language-learning strategies."
• Department for Education and Skills: Leading in learning: exemplification in modern foreign languages, zip file downloadable from Leading in Learning: developing thinking skills at Key Stage 3.
• Developing and sharing good practice for G&T pupils in MFL -Thinking Skills: Gifted and talented students. Sheffield City Council site covering "Bloom's building blocks and Modern Foreign Languages" and "Adding Creativity and Challenge to MFL topics". Many examples of associated activities. Project Report.
• Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Languages: Grete Pasch and Kent Norsworthy, Greenwood Press. Westport, Conn. 2000. 152 pages LC 00-034117. ISBN 0-313-31259-1. GR1259 $46.95 (Reference Book).
• It makes you think: creating engagement, offering challenges by Barry Jones and Ann Swarbrick, 2004. London: Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research.
• Je lis, alors je pense: Handbook for integrating reading and thinking in Grade 11 Core, Extended and Immersion French, by G. Bolger and G. Hogaboam, 2001. OMLTA/AOPLV.
• Recent Trends in TEFL: Thinking Skills through English Language Tasks: Paper by Angeliki Deligianni, EFL School Advisor, first presented in the 1st International Meeting on EFL in Secondary Education, London: 28-30 July 1999.
• Hertfordshire Grid for Learning Thinking Skills in MFL document.
• Staffordshire County Council Key Stage 3 Strategy Thinking Skills Tasks: French: Taboo; Word Loop - Les Animaux; Thinking Skills - Smoking; Penser à; Sample postcard; German: Taboo; Sample postcard; Odd One Out; French & German: Analogies.
• Sunderland local education authority Thinking Skills resources for French and Spanish.
• Eleanor Mayes's Language building: Not just bricks, but mortar too Thinking Skills Project for MFL at Henry Compton School.
• Kylee Milner of the East Riding of Yorkshire Thinking Skills in MFL document.
• Two contributions of my own to thinking skills in German: Classification and Odd One Out. They are best viewed in Word after downloading with "Save target as" using the right-hand mouse button.
• Jackson, J., Richards, K., Redford-Hernandez H. and Bains, B. (2004) Badger KS3 Modern Foreign Languages Starters: Developing Thinking Skills – French, German and Spanish, Badger Publishing.
• Hagemann, J. A. (1984) Teaching creative thinking skills to foreign adults to facilitate their adaptation to the U.S., paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (18th, Houston, TX, March 6-11, 1984).
• Harper, J. and Lively, M. (1988) We've Got The "HOTS" for Foreign Languages: Strategies for Teaching Higher Order Thinking Skills. Hurst, Texas: Tarrant County Junior College.
• Klein, C. E. (1993) 'More than a required skill in today's curriculum: Critical thinking and collaborative learning in foreign languages', Mid-Atlantic Journal of Foreign Language Pedagogy 1, pp. 91-96.
• Lin, M. and Mackay, C. (2004) Thinking Through Modern Foreign Languages, Cambridge: Chris Kington Publishing.
• Richards, J. C. and Lockhart, C. (1994) Reflective teaching in second language classrooms, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Ridley, J. (1997) Learner Autonomy: 6. Developing Learners' Thinking Skills, Dublin: Authentik: Books for language teachers.
• Rojas, V. P. (2001) 'A View from the Foxhole: Elevating Foreign Language Classrooms', in Cost, A. L. (ed.) Developing Minds: A Resource Book for Teaching Thinking, Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, pp. 326-331. Argues that 'what is needed is a model of (foreign language) teaching that values risk-taking, welcomes conjecture, and sees error making as inevitable and necessary.'
• St Thomas More High School (2003) Thinking Skills in MFL: Beacon School Activity.