The Effectiveness of Critical Thinking on Enhancing Productive Skills among Iranian EFL Pre-Intermediate Learners

  • سال انتشار: 1399
  • محل انتشار: تحقیقات کاربردی در زبان انگلیسی، دوره: 9، شماره: 3
  • کد COI اختصاصی: JR_AREUIT-9-3_001
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 471
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نویسندگان

Maryam Kaviani

۱ Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran

Davood Mashhadi Heidar

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran

چکیده

In regard to recent revolution in the education domain, English Language Teaching (ELT) assigns a sociopolitical dimension to itself in the light of Critical Pedagogy. The present study, in line with the recent educational revolution, aimed to investigate the effectiveness of critical thinking on improving EFL learners’ productive skills. The statistical population consisted of ۱۶۴ pre-intermediate attendees of EFL in an English Language Institute in the city of Babol selected for taking an Oxford Placement Test (OPT). The participants were ۸۰ Iranian pre-intermediate EFL students within ۱۰-۲۰-year range, enrolled in Shokouh English language institute in Babol, who were randomly divided into two experimental and two control groups of (N=۲۰) for each group during summer ۲۰۱۸ through the non-probability sampling design. Then, IELTS pre-intermediate speaking and writing tests were taken as the pre-test to make sure that they have failed to have a previous knowledge of objective structures. Unlike the control group, the participants in the experimental group were told to apply critical thinking instructions in learning speaking and writing skills. After intervention, the same pretest was taken to the participants in both groups as the posttest to determine the result of gaining the medical aid. Independent and paired sample t-tests were run to answer the research questions. The results indicated that critical thinking is highly contributive in learning productive skills. The findings of this study can be applied in methodological issues.

کلیدواژه ها

Critical Thinking, Productive skills, EFL, Pre-intermediate learners, ELT

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