Critical Thinking and Argumentative Writing: Inspecting the Association among EFL Learners in China

Pei, Zhengwei; Zheng, Chaoqun; Zhang, Meng; Liu, Fangzhou

doi:10.5539/elt.v10n10p31

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“…The second type of writing that could be applied to build a positive impression is argumentative writing which was also found in this research. The criteria of argumentative writing were relevance, clarity, logicality, profundity, and flexible [6]. The whole criteria were also found being applied by some authors in this research.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 56%

The Different Implementations of Building Positive Impression in the ELT Articles

Kurniawan¹,

Warsono²,

Sutopo³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language and Language Teaching, ICLLT 2019, 12 October, M

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One factor that influences the successfulness of published articles was a positive impression. It could attract the editors', reviewers', and readers' attention and appreciation. In this study, the researchers analyzed the different implementation of seven articles to build a positive impression based on Appraisal study. The articles were chosen through purposive sampling. It was analyzed by using the coding and interpreting technique. The findings show that every article had different implementation that comprised the exploration of the process and product, logical explanation of cause and effect, proposition of different reality between idealism and fact, pointing the trigger of finding, proposition of benefits, successfulness argumentation, and the explanation of method of collecting data. The results were beneficial to be applied as an Interpersonal technique to make the article is accepted in a publication because in the era of the online system, the publication requisites become higher.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 56%

The Different Implementations of Building Positive Impression in the ELT Articles

Kurniawan¹,

Warsono²,

Sutopo³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language and Language Teaching, ICLLT 2019, 12 October, M

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“…The similar technique was also applied by one study that management of topic limitation and organization needs to be explained in the thesis statement directly [14]. Other study proposed the crucial rule of logical writing organization to make the coherence of writing in proposing the idea in one of the finding example [9]. It also happened when giving suggestion.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We need to proposed the hypothesis and recognize to whom our writing would be addressed [8]. In fact, distinguishing between strong and relevant argument revealed an issue [9]. Persuasive writing is an approach that could be applied for publication.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Giving Suggestion Techniques to Build Communicative Interaction in Academic Articles

Kurniawan¹,

Warsono²,

Sutopo³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Science, Education and Technology, ISET 2019, 29th June 2

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Writing for publication is to present the research process and result, and build communicative interaction with readers. The writers need to gain the readers' high attention. The objective of this study was to find out the implications and benefits of the techniques of giving suggestion to build communicative interaction in five articles in ELT. The articles were selected through purposive sampling technique. Then, it was analyzed by using classifying technique and involving the Interpersonal meaning concept. The findings show that indirect suggestion is the most effective technique to build the communicative interaction. The writers could suggest readers indirectly to agree with the ideas, hypothesis, method, even the finding and analysis. The benefit of the findings was that the suggestion technique could be a hedge to avoid getting strong and negative impression of claiming truth. It also helped the writers' information become soft and understandable.

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“…Some people investigated English majors and non-English majors in universities. A recent research study (Pei, Zheng, Zhang, and Liu, 2017) pointed that English majors did not possess strong Critical Thinking Skills (CTS) by evaluating 110 English majors' performance across three grades at two universities in China. Moreover, there was no apparent difference in CTS across the three grades.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, CT not only brings significant benefits from the Socrates' period, in which a known critical thinking teaching strategy named "Socratic Questioning" prevailed until now, but also shows potentials to boost human development. In pedagogy field, previous studies have conducted investigations about it from different views, some discussing students' CT competences through observing how students behave in various settings (Çakır, Cengiz, 2016;MirshahJafari, Sharif, Asgari, & Omidi, 2018;Pei, Zheng, Zhang, Liu, 2017;Zhou, 2015), while some exploring the origin of CT and how it goes into effect in education field (Lin, 2016;Willingham, 2008;Zhu, 2015;Liu, He, Li, 2015;Mehta and Al-Mahrooqi, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Establishing Critical Thinking Course for High School Students in China: A Literature Review in Pedagogy Field

Huang¹

2019

International Conference on Education

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This review synthesizes researches on students' critical thinking (CT) abilities from school education. It examines factors related to the importance of CT skills to students worldwide, identifies the current statues of the CT skills of students in China, and describes practical principles in real teaching scenarios. A total of 17 studies met the inclusion criteria. The key findings from the review are (a) massive worldwide investigations have offered various proposals and emphasized the significance of CT throughout the history; (b) Chinese students still generally undertake the gloomy image of CT capabilities; (c) an integration of a CT course to the curricula in a regular basis and a design of inquiry-based lesson plan need to be adopted in schools. The finding indicates that setting a CT course in high school can potentially assist students and schools to achieve the goals. For future research, a new curriculum for Chinese high schools to improve Chinese students' CT abilities needs to be determined.

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Critical Thinking and Argumentative Writing: Inspecting the Association among EFL Learners in China

Cited by 44 publications

References 11 publications

The Different Implementations of Building Positive Impression in the ELT Articles

The Different Implementations of Building Positive Impression in the ELT Articles

Giving Suggestion Techniques to Build Communicative Interaction in Academic Articles

Establishing Critical Thinking Course for High School Students in China: A Literature Review in Pedagogy Field

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