Enhancing Students Abilities to Clarify and Make Suppositions: An Analysis of Teachers’ Views and Practices in some Private Schools in Tizi-Ouzou
| dc.contributor.author | Hessas Dyhia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Houari Katia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-10T09:14:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-10T09:14:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description | 61p. ; 30cm(+CD-Rom) | |
| dc.description.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. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Didactics Of Foreign Languages | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/24289 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Mouloud Mammerie University | |
| dc.subject | Clarifying | |
| dc.subject | making suppositions | |
| dc.subject | critical thinking skills | |
| dc.subject | red model | |
| dc.subject | teaching critical thinking | |
| dc.title | Enhancing Students Abilities to Clarify and Make Suppositions: An Analysis of Teachers’ Views and Practices in some Private Schools in Tizi-Ouzou | |
| dc.type | Thesis |