Enhancing EFL Students' Critical Thinking Skills Through SFT

Promoting EFL Students Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTs) Through Short Functional text (SFT) No. Abstract: ABS-ICOLLITE-23165 Authors: Ami Nurbaiti Prof. Dr. Sri Setyarini, M.A.,Ling Affiliation: Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) Bandung

INTRODUCTION Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTs) have become a major theme in education, particularly among EFL learners as it is considered an important skills to survive the information-loaded global world. In English learning activity, students also encouraged to use their critical thinking skills. Dealing with HOTs implementation, it has not shown optimal result due to problem faced by the teacher particularly in learning strategies. The purpose of this research: 1. Finding out how junior high school teacher promote HOTs in English learning through Short Functional Text (SFT) 2. Knowing teacher s challenges when promoting HOTs and how to overcome these challenges

LITERATURE REVIEW Anderson and David Karthwol (2001) HOTS is the ability to apply information in a meaningful way, represent problems, make decisions, innovate, and produce something Saiffer (2018) There are two main HOTs: critical thinking and creative thinking

METHOD Research Design Data Analysis A qualitative method was employed in this research, especially in analyzing the data Classroom Action Research (CAR) was employed online in this research to see the DST promote HOTS of EFL young learners Procedure Participants of the Research Planning, acting, observing, and reflecting participants were a teacher and seven grade of junior high school Instruments classroom observation, interviews with the teacher and students, and document analysis

FINDING AND DISCUSSION Strategies in Promoting HOTs Through SFT Learning Phase Strategies Activities Pre-Activity Brainstorming Asking students using open ended question Showing SFT material Guessing game Mind Mapping Drawing mind-mapping tree Making prediction Modelling Giving practical examples Guessing games Using words in sentences

Benefits gained by the students from their learning Benefits Gained Indicators No 1. Developing ideas and creativity They can share their ideas, opinions, and arguments freely 2. Learning New Vocabularies Some new vocabularies are used to tell their stories, either in their written or oral forms 3. Enjoyable learning They show their enthusiasm and enjoyment in their learning 4. Self-motivation They are more active and curious in joining all learning activities 5. Developing Critical Thinking Their higher levels of thinking are promoted through applying, comparing, contrasting, evaluating, and creating the short text given 6. Exploring new ideas They can predict future events or happenings of the stories and connect with the contextual situations occurred in their life 7. Self confidence They are willing to deliver their ideas in front of the class without feeling worried to make mistakes 8. Improving comprehension They understand the text since they relate to their experiences 9 Speaking opportunity They attempt to state what they are thinking and maintain their communication to others

Challenges faced by the teacher in learning-teaching process and strategies to anticipate them No Types of Challenges Challenges Faced by the teachers Lack of teachers experiences Linguistic and pedagogical problems Less confident of teaching HOTs Strategies Teacher s development program Attending conferences, workshops, and seminar Continuing their higher education Actively join teacher association Searching and selecting learning materials from websites Providing scaffolding appropriately Improve classroom management Give more learning autonomy to the students 1. Internal 2. External Irrelevant teaching materials and learning sources Limited time Overloaded classes

CONCLUSION The use of SFT can promote HOTs of EFL learners. The finding shows that students could think critically and creatively. It can be seen from each thinking in the first and second cycle. There were several challenges which the teacher faced during the implementation of SFT to promote HOTs of EFL learners. Those are teaching instruments, technological issues, students' English and the implementation processes.

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