scholarly journals The relationship between critical thinking ability and listening comprehension ability of Iranian EFL learners

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esmaeel Nour Mohammadi ◽  
Zahra Zare
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Critical Thinking Ability ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
Comprehension Ability ◽  
The Relationship

Critical Thinking, Autonomy, and Lexical Knowledge of Iranian EFL Learners

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 878
Author(s):  
Sajad Faramarzi ◽  
Atefeh Elekaei ◽  
Hossein Heidari Tabrizi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Lexical Knowledge ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Critical Thinking Ability ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Knowledge Of Learners ◽  
One Way Anova

The present study was conducted in order to identify the relationship among autonomy, critical thinking ability, and lexical knowledge of Iranian EFL learners. 114 male and female learners learning English as a foreign language participated in the present study. The obtained data was analyzed by using Pearson correlation coefficient and One-Way ANOVA. The results of the present study indicated that there was a significant positive relationship between autonomy and lexical knowledge of learners. Moreover, the results of One-Way ANOVA revealed that learners with high critical thinking ability level were the most autonomous learners. Furthermore, learners with high critical thinking ability had high lexical knowledge.

scholarly journals Teachers’ use of Bloom’s higher order questions in class to augment EFL learners’ listening comprehension and critical thinking ability

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-113
Author(s):  
Akram Faravani ◽  
Ensie Taleb
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Critical Thinking Ability ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Higher Order Questions

Abstract The current emphasis on questioning techniques has inspired many EFL teachers to explore the impact of applying different pedagogical teaching strategies on the enhancement of thinking skills. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate the influence of using higher order questioning technique on the listening comprehension achievement and critical thinking ability of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. To reach this end, 40 participants in 4 intact classes in Kish Air Language institute in Mashhad were selected and divided in two groups to be assigned into experimental and control group. The experimental group received higher order questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy classification for 12 sessions. A pretest and a posttest of English listening comprehension test of TOEFL (TOEFL PBT) and California Critical Thinking Skill Test (CCTST) were administrated in both groups. 2 Independent sample t-tests were utilized to examine the data. Sample t-tests were run to compare the experimental and the control group means on the pretest and posttest of listening comprehension and critical thinking tests. The results surmised that there was a statistically significant difference between the pretest and posttest scores regarding listening comprehension and critical thinking in the experimental group. The results imply that using higher order questions as an instructional technique can enhance learners’ listening comprehension achievement and critical thinking ability.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CRITICAL THINKING ABILITY AND METACOGNITIVE LISTENING STRATEGIES OF EFL LEARNERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Lela Ivanovska ◽  
Viktorija Petkovska
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
First Year ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Critical Thinking Ability ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Listening Strategies ◽  
The Relationship

The present study was conducted to identify the relationship between critical thinking and metacognitive awareness listening strategies of Intermediate EFL learners. It also, investigated difference between the learners with high and low critical thinking ability on their performance in metacognitive listening strategies use. The participants of this study were 120 first year university students from the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Bitola, Macedonia. Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Questionnaire, Meta-Cognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire and listening comprehension tests were used as instruments of this study. The results of this study revealed that there was a strong positive significant correlation between critical thinking ability and metacognitive listening strategies. In order to investigate difference between learners with high and low critical thinking ability and their metacognitive listening strategies use an independent sample t-test was employed, and the results showed a significant difference between the learners with high and low critical thinking ability and their metacognitive listening strategies use.

scholarly journals PROBLEM SOLVING ATTITUDE AND CRITICAL THINKING ABILITY OF STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-149
Author(s):  
Jerald C. Moneva ◽  
Rey G. Miralles ◽  
James Z. Rosell
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Weighted Mean ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Critical Thinking Ability ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Correlation Design

Problem solving attitude is one of the most important aspect of the students in handling problems that they encountered. Meanwhile, critical thinking ability is also an important skill of the students in dealing and analyzing the problems and to it appropriately. The study used descriptive correlation design to determine the relationship between problem solving attitude and critical thinking ability of the students. The study has 240 respondents from the different strands (ABM, HUMSS, GAS, TVL and STEM) in certain senior high school: Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines. The tool used in this study in getting the information and data collection is rating scale questionnaire. All the data are analyzed using weighted mean and chi-square to show the result. The result shows that the problem solving attitude is significantly associated to the critical thinking ability of the students. Students who have high level of problem solving attitude will become successful ones someday, because they don’t get affected in their problems instead, they solved it right away with their critical thinking. Students' critical thinking ability is very useful in solving and analyzing their problems.

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