Promoting the Emergence of EFL Students' Fundamental Critical Thinking Skills thorugh English Debate: A Case Study in Indonesian Context

Pratama, Muhamad Ikhsan and Kurniawati, Nia and Nurwanti, Dahlya Indra (2018) Promoting the Emergence of EFL Students' Fundamental Critical Thinking Skills thorugh English Debate: A Case Study in Indonesian Context. In: The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, 22-23 November 2017, Bandung, Indonesia.

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Abstract

Critical Thinking (CT) is considered to be one of the important skills that should be mastered by college students. CT is closely related to thinking process used to deliver ideas and making decisions that become parts of a requirement for college students. Hoewever, teaching the students to possess CT skills takes time. Therefore, the campus activities need to be directed to equip the students with this CT skills. In Indonesia context, the use of "Debate Activity" to be a part of college students' activities is considered one way to train the students CT skills. This study aims at evaluating the emergence of the CT skills in debating activities conducted by EFL learners. The fundamental of CT skills proposed by Fisher (2001) were utilized. To achieve this goal, four participants are selected purposively by considering the result from their recorded video of the speech and their notes that they made in case building section. The instruments use to collect the data are ducument analysis and recorded video. The result shows six from nine kinds of fundamental CT can be covered by EFL students in ENglish debates. They are (1) reasons and conclusions, (2) clarify and interpret expressions and ideas, (3) evaluate argumetns of different kinds, (4) produce explanations, (5) draw inferences, and (6) produce argumetns. This study contributes to provide the new perspective that debate has potentiao to fosters the students' CT. However, to face the challenge, the students need to be provided more activities like a debate in and out of the class.

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