مجلة الباحث للعلوم الرياضية والاجتماعية
Volume 4, Numéro 1, Pages 441-457
2021-01-10
Classroom Debate To Enhance Critical Thinking Skills
Authors : Boumediene Houda . Berrahal Fatiha . Hammadi Nabil Aziz .
Abstract
Critical thinking is seen by many scholars and educationalists as the common denominator of success. It helps students to develop effective thinking habits of mind. Thus, it becomes a desirable objective. To reach it, teachers today use different methods in classes. The current work examines the efficacy of developing critical thinking skills through debating about literature. In EFL teaching, students are not expected to initially understand what to aim for, they need to be guided. Thus, they can be taught to link what questions to how questions. Moreover, developing a critical ability of mind entails developing students’ awareness of mental processes, which allow them to rethink their own ideas and perceptions. In this research paper, we intend to explore the importance of critical thinking for students and the effects of class debating as a tool in enhancing the students’ critical thinking skills. To answer our research main question of whether classroom debate can enhance critical thinking and due to the actual circumstances of the Covid19, a survey was conducted based on merely a descriptive method. Our findings demonstrate that the class debate method helps students think in a more logical way and makes them easily perceive issues and data from different perspectives. Finally, it is revealed that class debating while teaching literature or civilization is crucial to help students use and develop their critical thinking skills.
Keywords
critical thinking ; class debate ; debating ; habit of mind ; logical way ; rethink ; teaching literature
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