Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices about Teaching of Writing: A Pathway to Holistic Teaching

Rohmah, Galuh Nur; Santi, Vita Nur

doi:10.5220/0009911705460552

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“…Connecting with that, there are several studies concerning on how teacher beliefs are exposed in some topic areas by a number of researchers (Dwee et al, 2016;Fitriyah, 2020;Massa, 2014;Rohmah & Nur Santi, 2020) and others. As a consequence, this present study comes up to complete the drawbacks of the previous one.…”

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EFL teacher beliefs in boosting students’ critical thinking

Kummala

Anugerahwati²,

Astuti³

2022

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The urgency of teaching critical thinking skills to the students currently cannot be neglected. The teacher holds essential role to prepare them to have great soft skills for their future lives. No matter what they want to be or what discipline of knowledge they want to emphasize, the ability to think critically will be beneficial for them. Hence, this paper aims to dig up teacher beliefs about the notion of critical thinking and how to teach it to the students. This research focused on EFL teachers of secondary level in Indonesia, particularly in Malang. By utilizing questionnaire and interview to collect the data, the results demonstrated that: (1) there are 85% of respondents believe in the importance of teaching critical thinking skills in secondary school area. (2) EFL teachers believed that it is very crucial for the teachers themselves to have the ability to think critically before teaching to their students, (3) they believed that by providing numerous activities such as debate, avoiding ‘lecturing’, problem solving and others could boost the students’ thinking skills.

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confidence: 98%

“…Nevertheless, apart from exploring the teacher from the aspect of their strategies, experience, and professional development, their beliefs and practices are important aspect to investigate as well (Rohmah & Nur Santi, 2020). The notion of teacher beliefs has a particular relationship with the teaching practice in the classroom.…”

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confidence: 99%