Critical thinking subskills in project-based EFL learning: uneven salience and conditional activation.

Front Psychol · 2026 · PMC13095705 · PMID 42022422

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Zhang and Ma (2023) , synthesising 66 studies, reported a moderate positive effect of PjBL on thinking skills overall, though the effect on critical thinking specifically did not reach statistical significance.

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