Effects of using inquiry-based learning on EFL students’ critical thinking skills
Abstract The aim of this study was to examine the effects of using inquiry-based learning on students’ critical thinking skills. A quasi-experimental design which employed time series design with single group participants was used. A total of 20 EFL undergraduate students who took advanced writing s...
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| author | Bantalem Derseh Wale Kassie Shifere Bishaw |
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| description | Abstract The aim of this study was to examine the effects of using inquiry-based learning on students’ critical thinking skills. A quasi-experimental design which employed time series design with single group participants was used. A total of 20 EFL undergraduate students who took advanced writing skills course were selected using comprehensive sampling method. Tests, focus group discussion, and student-reflective journal were used to gather data on the students’ critical thinking skills. The participants were given a series of three argumentative essay writing pretests both before and after the intervention, inquiry-based argumentative essay writing instruction. While the quantitative data were analyzed using One-Way Repeated Measures ANOVA, the qualitative data were analyzed through narration. The findings of the study revealed that using inquiry-based argumentative writing instruction enhances students’ critical thinking skills. Therefore, inquiry-based instruction is suggested as a means to improve students’ critical thinking skills because the method enhances students' interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explanation, and self-regulation skills which are the core critical thinking skills. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-491722142ed4444789b3ed6d8721a14c2022-12-22T01:01:56ZengSpringerOpenAsian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education2363-51692020-06-015111410.1186/s40862-020-00090-2Effects of using inquiry-based learning on EFL students’ critical thinking skillsBantalem Derseh Wale0Kassie Shifere Bishaw1Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Woldia UniversityDepartment of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Bahir Dar UniversityAbstract The aim of this study was to examine the effects of using inquiry-based learning on students’ critical thinking skills. A quasi-experimental design which employed time series design with single group participants was used. A total of 20 EFL undergraduate students who took advanced writing skills course were selected using comprehensive sampling method. Tests, focus group discussion, and student-reflective journal were used to gather data on the students’ critical thinking skills. The participants were given a series of three argumentative essay writing pretests both before and after the intervention, inquiry-based argumentative essay writing instruction. While the quantitative data were analyzed using One-Way Repeated Measures ANOVA, the qualitative data were analyzed through narration. The findings of the study revealed that using inquiry-based argumentative writing instruction enhances students’ critical thinking skills. Therefore, inquiry-based instruction is suggested as a means to improve students’ critical thinking skills because the method enhances students' interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explanation, and self-regulation skills which are the core critical thinking skills.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40862-020-00090-2Inquiry-based learningCritical thinking skillsArgumentative essayWriting instructionTime series designEnglish as a foreign language |
| spellingShingle | Bantalem Derseh Wale Kassie Shifere Bishaw Effects of using inquiry-based learning on EFL students’ critical thinking skills Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education Inquiry-based learning Critical thinking skills Argumentative essay Writing instruction Time series design English as a foreign language |
| title | Effects of using inquiry-based learning on EFL students’ critical thinking skills |
| title_full | Effects of using inquiry-based learning on EFL students’ critical thinking skills |
| title_fullStr | Effects of using inquiry-based learning on EFL students’ critical thinking skills |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effects of using inquiry-based learning on EFL students’ critical thinking skills |
| title_short | Effects of using inquiry-based learning on EFL students’ critical thinking skills |
| title_sort | effects of using inquiry based learning on efl students critical thinking skills |
| topic | Inquiry-based learning Critical thinking skills Argumentative essay Writing instruction Time series design English as a foreign language |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40862-020-00090-2 |
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