The Effectiveness of Critical Thinking in Efl Classrooms
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Faculty of English Education
Abstract
The very research study entitled The Effectiveness of Critical Thinking in EFL
Classrooms is an attempt to find out the effectiveness of critical thinking
methodologies in the classrooms where English is taught as foreign language as
practiced in Nepal as well as in the context of Surkhet. The researcher has
primarily emphasized to learn these critical thinking skills in reading skill but as
there is no any boundary between listening –speaking and reading – writing.
The research was carried among the forty two students of class seven in Hermann
Gmeiner Higher Secondary School, Kalagaon Surkhet. Among them there were
twenty two boys and twenty girls of different ethnic groups and status. The study
basically studies and analyzes the primary data collected from the Pre-test and
Post-test results. It is an experimental research where the researcher has taken
twenty eight classes each to Experimental Group (A) and Control Group (B). He
used critical thinking methodologies to Group ‘A’ whereas he practiced other
methods to Group ‘B’.
The study is divided into four main chapters and other sub-topics. The first chapter
is about the general introduction to critical thinking and how to enter into such
thinking in English language. It further describes about the brief history from
America to Nepal.The second chapter deals with the methodology adopted for the
study. It includes sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedures, tools for data collection, process of data collection, limitation of the study and
definition of the terms. The data collection tools are pre-test, sample test and posttest results. The third chapter is related to the analysis and interpretation of the
tabulated data on the basis of the presented data.The fourth chapter consists of
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findings and recommendations on the basis of the analysis and interpretation given
in chapter three.The study found that the experimental group (Group- A) better
than control group (Group- B) for developing their lower level of thinking and
higher level of thinking skills after comparing the result of Pre-test and Post test
results. They were instituted skilled in debate, discussion, analyze, summarize and
evaluate the ideas and objects. It was seen in case of comparing boys and girls in
both groups. Teaching with critical thinking skills was resulted that they are not
only child friendly and democratic but also mind friendly