Teachers’ Strategies in Fostering Students Critical Thinking in SMAN 1 Guguak

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10.2991/assehr.k.210914.053How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Teachers’ strategies, Critical thinking

Abstract

This research was to examine the strategies utilized by teachers of English in SMA N 1 Kec. Guguak in fostering the critical thinking of students. This research focused on the kinds of critical thinking based strategies utilized and also how they are implemented by English teachers. The researcher observed and analyzed if there would be nine strategies like the problem-posing, the frame, the question-generating, the believing and doubting, the evidence-finding, the case approach, the norming-session, the rough draft workshop, and the metacognitive. The design of the research is qualitative by doing observation, interview and documentation. The result of this research shows that there are four strategies found that can foster the critical thinking of students. The strategies found are Case strategy (37,5%), Problem-posing strategies (25%), Evidence finding strategy 25% and the last strategy implemented by teacher is Question generating strategy 12,50%.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jacky Ardiyan
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/14
TI  - Teachers’ Strategies in Fostering Students Critical Thinking in SMAN 1 Guguak
BT  - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT-8 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 280
EP  - 284
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210914.053
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210914.053
ID  - Ardiyan2021
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