A Small-scale Investigation Of Critical Thinking Dispositions: The Case Of Second Year Foreign Languages Students At Rachid Ridha Al-achouri High School, Biskra
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2022-03-31
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جامعة الوادي - university of Eloued
Abstract
Critical thinking dispositions play a major
role in the teaching and the learning
processes of the thinking skills. In fact,
critical thinking is viewed as "both a
systemic inquiry and a mental attitude, a
complex set of abilities and a process of
dealing with ideas" (Cromwell, 1992, p. 39).
EFL students ability to analyze or evaluate
information, rules, or facts depends largely
on their emotional readiness to be critical. If
they choose not to exercise their thinking
abilities, or they have not acquired the good
thinking habits, those students may not be
able to use the thinking skills. This would
impede the development of critical thinking
abilities in the EFL classrooms. The present
paper is a small-scale investigation of
critical thinking dispositions among second
year high school students majoring in
foreign languages at Rachid Rida AlAchouri in the willaya of Biskra. The
questionnaire utilizes California Critical
Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTDI)
model advocated by Facione (1990). The
CCTDI includes analycity, openmindedness, inquisitiveness, selfconfidence, truth-seeking, and
systematicity thinking dispositions. The
final findings show that all participants of
the present study have more favorable
dispositions towards analyticity, openmindedness, inquisitiveness, truth-seeking,
self-confidence, and disinclination toward
systematicity.
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: critical thinking, dispositions, CCTDI, EFL, second year
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Hebiret, Sara.Bacher, Ahmed. A Small-scale Investigation Of Critical Thinking Dispositions: The Case Of Second Year Foreign Languages Students At Rachid Ridha Al-achouri High School, Biskra . Ex Professo. Vol. 07. N 01. 31/03/ 2022. |University of El -oued. [visited in ../../….]. available from [copy the link here]