Enhancing Students Abilities to Clarify and Make Suppositions: An Analysis of Teachers’ Views and Practices in some Private Schools in Tizi-Ouzou
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Date
2023
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Mouloud Mammerie University
Abstract
The present study examines EFL teachers’ views and practices to enhance their students’
critical thinking skills in some private schools. It mainly aims to investigate the perspectives
and the techniques used by EFL teachers to enhance their students’ abilities to ‘clarify’ and
‘make suppositions’. To reach these objectives, we have conducted a study where we have
gained insights on the teachers’ perspectives and examined their practices in the classroom.
The analytical framework of this research consists of a combination of Ennis’ Taxonomy of
critical thinking (2011) and the Watson-Glaser RED Model of critical thinking (Pearson,
2013, as cited in Wulandari, 2021). This study has adopted the mixed-methods approach
which combines both quantitative and qualitative methods. In order to collect reliable data, we
have addressed a questionnaire to some advanced levels’ EFL teachers, and conducted
classroom observations in some private schools in Tizi-Ouzou. The Descriptive Statistical
Method and Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) were used to analyze the collected data. The
findings demonstrated that the teachers consider the importance of enhancing critical thinking
skills, specifically the ability to ‘clarify’ and ‘make suppositions’. The results also show that
the participant teachers use various strategies to enhance these abilities, such as classroom
discussions, group-work, questioning techniques, and engaging students in authentic
situations. To conclude, all the teachers participated in this investigation have advocated for
the importance of critical thinking skills in education, and the need to employ effective
strategies to enhance these abilities.
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61p. ; 30cm(+CD-Rom)
Keywords
Clarifying, making suppositions, critical thinking skills, red model, teaching critical thinking
Citation
Didactics Of Foreign Languages