Teacher’s Strategies in Developing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills Through Reading Activities (A Case Study at A High School in Indonesia)

Oktaviana Marlinda Azizah, Hefy Sulistyawati, Dewi Sri Wahyuni

Abstract

This paper discusses the teacher’s strategies in developing students’ critical thinking skills through reading activities. The aims of this research are to investigate the teacher’s strategies in developing students’ critical thinking skills through reading activities and to find out the students’ response towards those strategies. This research used case study method and the subjects of this research are the English teacher and the seven students of Grade XII which consist of five male and two female students. The data in this research are collected from observation, interview, and documentation. The results of this research show that the teacher used several strategies to develop the students’ critical thinking skill through reading activities, such as (1) started the reading activity from literature to critical thinking; (2) Predicting and Previewing Strategy; (3) Vocabulary Preview Strategy; (4) Questioning Strategy; (5) Outlining and Summarizing Strategy; (6) Reasoning and Evaluating Strategy; (7) Recognizing Context Strategy; (8) Reflecting Strategy. Moreover, most of the students’ response to the teacher’s strategies in developing students’ critical thinking skills through reading activities are positive, and they feel the improvement in their critical thinking skills after the teacher applied these strategies in developing their critical thinking skills through different reading activities.

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teaching strategy; critical thinking; reading activity.

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