Exploring Critical Thinking in High School
EFL Classroom: Implementation and Challenges.
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Institusion
Universitas PGRI Adi Buana Surabaya
Author
Aini, Dini Nurul
Subject
L Education (General)
Datestamp
2024-09-03 04:08:05
Abstract :
Critical thinking is a process of actively in observing, understanding, evaluating, and analyzing a problem or information that has been obtained. Critical thinking skills need to be in integrated in the classroom activities. This study aims at exploring the implementation and challenges of critical thinking in high school EFL classroom. This study adopted a qualitative study as a research design in which interviews with four English teachers, supported by observation and document review used as data collection techniques. The data were then analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings of this study indicate that critical thinking was implemented through providing students with stimulating question, providing students? with stimulating questions, using case studies to help students apply critical thinking in context, giving students opportunities to engage in group discussion, providing the students? to practice and analyse the different perspectives. However teacher faced several challenges such as the disparities of the students? level of understanding, the students? issues of motivation and confidence, and the students lack of knowledge. These findings are significant for developing critical thinking in high school EFL classrooms.
Critical thinking is a process of actively in observing, understanding, evaluating, and analyzing a problem or information that has been obtained. Critical thinking skills need to be in integrated in the classroom activities. This study aims at exploring the implementation and challenges of critical thinking in high school EFL classroom. This study adopted a qualitative study as a research design in which interviews with four English teachers, supported by observation and document review used as data collection techniques. The data were then analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings of this study indicate that critical thinking was implemented through providing students with stimulating question, providing students? with stimulating questions, using case studies to help students apply critical thinking in context, giving students opportunities to engage in group discussion, providing the students? to practice and analyse the different perspectives. However teacher faced several challenges such as the disparities of the students? level of understanding, the students? issues of motivation and confidence, and the students lack of knowledge. These findings are significant for developing critical thinking in high school EFL classrooms.
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