Employing Critical Reading Strategy to Promote Students’ High Order Thinking Skills

Abstract

This paper aims to share idea about the use of critical reading to stimulate students’ critical thinking and reading comprehension whether it is for academic purpose or reading for enjoyment, particularly in the foreign language learning. The employment of critical reading will automatically involve students’ high-order thinking Skills. Thus, reading strategies is needed as a way to engage students’ active learning during teaching and learning in a reading class. Later on, the beneficial employment of critical reading can be seen from the students’ writing activity of an article critique or a literature review. Student-centered learning is chosen as the teaching method during the reading class. It is believed that students are willingly to get involve, to be active and to be communicative learners. This article will review some previous studies and theory on the employment of critical reading strategy in promoting students’ high order thinking Skills and its effect toward reading comprehension.

Analisis Dimensi Berpikir Kritikal dalam Program Membaca Ekstensif

“…Melihat besarnya pengaruh kemampuan berpikir kritis terhadap pengembangan intelektual pembelajar, beberapa pendidik telah menjadikan kemampuan berpikir kritis sebagai landasan penting dalam pendidikan (Elder & Paul, 2010). Beberapa penelitian menunjukkan hubungan yang signifikan antara pengaruh daya berpikir kritis pembelajar terhadap perkembangan belajar bahasa Inggris, khususnya dalam kemampuan membaca (reading comprehension) dalam menganalisis dan mengevaluasi informasi, membuat inferensi dan menarik kesimpulan (Aloqaili, 2011); meningkatkan kemampuan membaca (reading comprehension) pada pelajar bahasa Inggris dalam konteks English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Fahim & Sa'eepour, (2011) dan meningkatkan interaksi dengan bacaan (Handayani, 2018). Mahasiswa yang memiliki kemampuan berpikir kritis akan lebih memahami materi yang disampaikan oleh dosen dan membaca teks akademik dengan lebih efektif (Halpern, 2014).…”

The Use of Mobile Technology in Enhancing the Critical Reading Skills of Pre-University ESL Students

“…practices, text participation practice, text using and text analyzing practice (Handayani, 2018) that caused high motivation and interest among the students (Gangaiamaran & Pasuathi , 2017).…”

“…Critical thinking is essential life skills in the 21 st century to achieve success at work or school (Greiff, Niepel, & Wüstenberg, 2015) and the deficiency to think critically among fresh graduates (Azmi, Hashim, & Yusoff, 2018) served as impetus to conduct study on the root of the problem related to the development of critical thinking. Critical thinking is inextricably linked to critical reading because critical thinking occurred if the text is critically understood through critical reading (Kurland, 2000;Handayani, 2018). Thus critical reading skills should be emphasized in the teaching and learning process of reading.…”