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creators_name: Puadi Ilyas, Hamzah
creators_id: hamzahpuadi@uhamka.ac.id
title: Indonesian EFL Teachers’ Conceptions of Critical
Thinking
ispublished: pub
subjects: L1
subjects: PE
subjects: PR
keywords: critical thinking, EFL teachers‟ conceptions, Indonesia
abstract: This study aims to investigate the Indonesian EFL (English as a Foreign Language)
teachers‟ conceptions of critical thinking. 59 teachers coming from three different
provinces (Jakarta, Banten, West Java) in Indonesia participated in this study by answering
open-ended questionnaire. The questionnaire asked two questions. The first question asked
whether the participant recognised the term „critical thinking.‟ The second question asked
how the participant conceptualised critical thinking. The study found that only one teacher
who never heard the term critical thinking. With regard to the conceptions of critical, there
were some emerging themes such as analysis, evaluation, criticism, creativity, problem
solving, reflection, curiosity, and even Bloom‟s taxonomy. Findings of this study are
similar to the critical thinking conceptions proposed by Western academics.
date: 2018-01-01
date_type: published
publisher: Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof.Dr.HAMKA
official_url: http://journal.uhamka.ac.id/index.php/jer/
id_number: DOI: 10.22236/JER_Vol3Issue1
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of ELT Research
volume: 3
number: 1
pagerange: 29-37
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2502-292X
related_url_url: http://journal.uhamka.ac.id/index.php/jer/
related_url_type: pub
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citation:   Puadi Ilyas, Hamzah  (2018) Indonesian EFL Teachers’ Conceptions of Critical Thinking.  Journal of ELT Research, 3 (1).  pp. 29-37.  ISSN 2502-292X     
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