Unravelling Vietnamese Students' Critical Thinking and Its Relationship with Argumentative Writing

University Students’ Critical Thinking Skills: Teachers’ Perceptions and Practices in Argumentative Essays

“…The findings from the questionnaires and semi-structured reveal that teachers' perceptions of university students' critical thinking skills are at a high level. This is in line with the findings of research by Nguyen (2020), which showed that the critical thinking of university students in the Mekong Delta is at a high level. However, there is a contrast between this study and the current study in that teachers participating in this research have an extremely strong belief in the relationship between students' critical thinking skills and have specific activities to prepare for classes with a low or high level of critical thinking skills classes.…”

“…Of different types of writing such as academic writing, jobrelated writing, and personal writing (Brown, 2004), an argumentative essay is thought to be closely related to critical thinking (Halpern, 1998). This relationship is documented in the literature which addresses that the integration of critical thinking into writing instruction could improve students' argumentative essay writing (e.g., Fahim and Eslamdoost, 2014;Nguyen and Nguyen, 2020).…”

“…A study by Nguyen (2020) examined the correlation between critical thinking and argumentative essay writing of students at a university in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Data collected in this study included a questionnaire and an essay writing test.…”

Effects of Critical Thinking Disposition on Foreign Language Proficiency in Foreign Language Learning: Evidence from China

“…Another possible reason was that there were two different dimensions in CT: skill and disposition (Cheng & Wan, 2017). Individuals have the skill and ability to think critically but may lack an attitudinal disposition toward CT, thus generating inconsistent results with the previous studies (Nguyen & Nguyen, 2020). To put it another way, CT disposition was another factor possibly playing a critical role in influencing students' foreign language learning.…”

“…The pivotal role of CT for foreign language learners to achieve success in foreign language learning has been identified (Davidson, 1998) in many studies. Meanwhile, several empirical studies have also investigated the correlations between CT and different language skills, with a majority of them focusing on reading (e.g., Aghajani & Gholamrezapour, 2019;Heidari, 2020;Hosseini, Khodaei, Sarfallah, & Dolatabadi, 2012), and writing (e.g., Afshar, Movassagh, & Radi Arbabi, 2017;Nguyen & Nguyen, 2020). As for the link between CT skills and foreign language writing, contradictory findings have been reported.…”