From Narativity to Criticality: Developing EFL Learners’ Critical Thinking Skills through Short Narratives/Stories Reading

Pashangzadeh, Ashkan; Ahmadian, Moussa; Yazdani, Hooshang

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“…This genre of the text employs more complex and implied language than non-narrative, allowing for more room for different interpretations, explanations, and argumentations Atkinson and Mitchell (2010). Utilizing narrative in EFL contexts may also provide opportunities for language learners to improve their self-awareness and higher-order thinking skills through confrontation with a variety of interpretations, explanations, and arguments (Pashangzadeh et al, 2016). It is further supported by the findings of the study conducted by Setyarini et al (2018) underlining that storytelling is a part of narrative learning promotes students' higher-order thinking skills since the EFL teacher will be able to invite students to brainstorm, mind-mapping, and role-playing activities.…”

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Analogical Reasoning in Narative Text: An Innovation to Improve Students’ Critical Thinking

Suharno

Setyarini

2021

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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The current rate of advancement in information and technology presents new challenges for EFL teachers at all levels of education. Students are confronted with perplexing data, leaving them feeling disoriented in the digital world and ignoring their awareness of social issues. This problem prompts the teachers to encourage students’ critical thinking skills through various strategies that require them to participate in learning. This study describes the implementation of analogical reasoning in a narrative text to promote EFL junior secondary students’ critical thinking skills and investigate the levels of students’ thinking skills promoted by the teachers through the learning strategy. A classroom action research covering two cycles was employed as a research design. There were three instruments to collect the data: classroom observation, interview with the teachers and students, and document analysis. The collected data were then analyzed and interpreted by referring to the theory of analogical reasoning, narrative text, and promoting critical thinking skills. This study revealed that the teachers applied analogical reasoning in three stages, such as retrieval, mapping, and reflecting integrated with students’ schemata. In terms of the students’ levels of thinking, this learning strategy had successfully promoted students’ thinking skills from applying to creating levels as indicated from the inferences made by the students.

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Analogical Reasoning in Narative Text: An Innovation to Improve Students’ Critical Thinking

Suharno

Setyarini

2021

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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Does explicit teaching of critical thinking improve critical thinking skills of English language learners in higher education? A critical review of causal evidence

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2019

Studies in Educational Evaluation

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From Narativity to Criticality: Developing EFL Learners’ Critical Thinking Skills through Short Narratives/Stories Reading

Cited by 2 publications

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Analogical Reasoning in Narative Text: An Innovation to Improve Students’ Critical Thinking

Analogical Reasoning in Narative Text: An Innovation to Improve Students’ Critical Thinking

Does explicit teaching of critical thinking improve critical thinking skills of English language learners in higher education? A critical review of causal evidence

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