An Investigation on the Effect of Critical Thinking (CT) Instructions on Iranian EFL Learners’ Descriptive Writing: A Case of Gender Study
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| Title | An Investigation on the Effect of Critical Thinking (CT) Instructions on Iranian EFL Learners’ Descriptive Writing: A Case of Gender Study |
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| Abstract | This study aimed to find out whether critical thinking instructions affect Iranian EFL male and female students´ descriptive writing, and if there is a significant gender difference in strategy use in the writing performance. After administrating a Nelson (Fowler & Coe, 1976) test, a group of homogeneous university male and female students (60 males and 60 females) were selected from a total population of 170 at the intermediate level in Yasuj University. Then, they were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. The experimental groups received instructions regarding critical thinking instructions respectively, whereas the control ones received Conventional Instruction (CI) method followed an individualistic instructional approach based on the exercises in their regular text books. An independent sample t-test was conducted to compare the subjects´ means and to determine the effect of gender. The results depicted that critical thinking instructions had a significant effect on improving Iranian EFL students´ descriptive writing (p<.05). The results of the analysis also indicated that there were significant differences on the effective use of critical thinking instructions with regard to gender in descriptive writing test performance (p<.05). |
| Publisher | World Science Publisher |
| Date | 2012-03-18 |
| Source | 2167-6429 |
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