An Exploration of Students’ Difficulties in Using Critical Thinking Skills in Reading

Velayati, Nidar; Muslem, Asnawi; Fitriani, Siti Sarah; Samad, Iskandar Abdul

doi:10.15548/jt.v24i3.298

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“…Readers can grow their critical thinking through different reading processes, along with interpretation, inference, and text-based insights. However, the data obtained from previous research indicated that Indonesian college students still lack reading literacy for several reasons, such as laziness, insufficient time, poor reading habit, lack of vocabulary and background knowledge, and the use of ineffective reading strategies (Velayati, Muslem, Fitriani, & Samad, 2017;Wijayanti, 2020). Therefore, this current study explored critical reading's role to foster the critical thinking and reading comprehension of Indonesian undergraduate students majoring in Social and Political Sciences.…”

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The Role of Critical Reading to Promote Students’ Critical Thinking and Reading Comprehension

Arifin

2020

JPP

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Developing students' critical thinking and reading comprehension is crucial, particularly for those in colleges, because they need to read numerous scientific journals and textbooks written in English. Therefore, students need to employ critical reading strategies to raise their critical thinking skills for a successful academic life. However, current studies have shown a lack of critical thinking strategies among Indonesian students, thereby leading to various academic problems, particularly the inability to comprehend English. Therefore, this research aims to explore critical reading's role to support students' critical thinking and reading comprehension skills when reading a text. This is a qualitative research with the purposive random technique used to obtain data from seven (7) EFL non-English major undergraduate students in their 2nd semester through three (3) short argumentative texts, a semi-structured interview, and students' answers in written forms. The results showed that students developed their critical thinking skills and improved their reading comprehension in varying degrees by exposure to numerous tasks.

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The Role of Critical Reading to Promote Students’ Critical Thinking and Reading Comprehension

Arifin

2020

JPP

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“…As was known that having critical thinking skills is not something the students can acquire easily [9]. The students need to practice the skills continuously [10]. Hence, it is of high importance for teachers to teach the skills to the students either individually or inserted in the lecture [5].…”

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Students’ Voices Towards Online Debate Through WhatsApp as Alternative Media to Enhance Critical Thinking Skills During Covid-19 Pandemic

Pahmi

Niah

2021

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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This study aims to find out students’ voices towards online debate through WhatsApp as alternative media to enhance critical thinking skills during Covid-19 pandemic. Sixteen undergraduate students participated in online debate for ten sessions throughout one whole semester. At the end of the research, eight students volunteered to participate in semi-structured interviews. The interviews were conducted to find out the participants’ voices about the online debate. The research findings reveal the participants believe that critical thinking skills are important to be mastered. Furthermore, the respondents believe that the online debate is good learning media to help them improve their critical thinking skills during this Covid-19 pandemic. The activity provides flexibility in terms of time and place. Other advantages, as claimed by the participants, include reducing students’ anxiety, improving teamwork skills, and improving persuasion skills. However, some barriers were also found based on the participants’ responses. The participants are concerned with the issue of being distracted, tendency to copy and paste, unstable network, and limited time.

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“…Nowadays, improving students' abilities through education is the primary objective of the academic sector (Ningsih, 2016). However, some scholars have reported that several Indonesian students possess inadequate thinking skills, due to lack of practice and training (Indah, 2017;Velayati, Muslem, Fitriani, & Samad, 2017). In higher education, some subjects are geared towards this skill; therefore, students need to express their opinion supported by facts, data and experts' opinion.…”

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“…However, in the Indonesian context, there is a scarcity of literature on the use of journal writing to promote and nurture critical thinking of Higher English Education students. Most of the researches conducted in Indonesia involved undergraduates from different fields such physic education and study programs (Sinaga & Feranie, 2017), English Education (Velayati et al, 2017), and Senior High School Students in science classes (Nuri, Sajidan, Oetomo, Prasetyanti, & Parmin, 2019).…”

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Using Journal Entries and Assigned Writing to Promote Students’ Critical Thinking

Arifin

Ilyas

Sukmawidjaya

2020

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This research aims to determine the ability of journal entries and assigned writing to foster students' critical thinking. A total of six components, namely, interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explanation, and self-regulation, were used to carry out this study. Data were obtained from a total of twelve ( 12) students majoring in English Education from one of the universities in Jakarta by using semi-structured interview and text-analysis. Journal entries submitted by the students as a course prerequisite were evaluated and analyzed by two raters. The result showed that many students lack important critical thinking skills required for a successful study, and to acquire good employment after graduating from college. In addition, the use of journal entries and assigned writing has the ability to promote the critical thinking level to varying degrees.

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An Exploration of Students’ Difficulties in Using Critical Thinking Skills in Reading

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

The Role of Critical Reading to Promote Students’ Critical Thinking and Reading Comprehension

The Role of Critical Reading to Promote Students’ Critical Thinking and Reading Comprehension

Students’ Voices Towards Online Debate Through WhatsApp as Alternative Media to Enhance Critical Thinking Skills During Covid-19 Pandemic

Using Journal Entries and Assigned Writing to Promote Students’ Critical Thinking

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