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Hot Questions Cue Cards: Infusing Students’ Critical Thinking In Writing A Paragraph

In English proficiency, writing is categorized under productive skill. It is one of the four
language skills where learners express or communicate in writing and give written
account of materials. It is a multi-facet task that involves the use and coordination of
many cognitive processes. Due to its needs, many students find it challenging. There
are many ways in which writing can be integrated with teaching and learning process. One of them is by sharpening students’ critical thinking which is purposely designed to promote 6C's learning environment. Critical thinking equals thought processing, which results in clear writing. Critical thinking in writing is related to research in the way you deliberately search, analyze, and evaluate ideas. Critical thinking also discriminate appropriate and concise information that will deliver powerful messages to the readers This thing becomes important because nowadays our students are those who are characterized as Generation Z. In addition, these Gen Z students have their own traits which influence their way of developing ideas in writing. These issues have challenged the teacher to help students in sharpening their ideas to be put into writing materials. And to achieve that, some key questions are used to merge ideas about what to write by using HOT Questions Cue Cards. HOT stands for Higher Order Thinking, HOT Questions Cue Cards are used in this study as a treatment to make students be able to put critical thinking in their paragraph writing. The purpose of this study is to find out whether or not HOT Cue Card technique can promote students’ critical thinking in writing a paragraph. This study used classroom action research conducted in Intermediate 2 class consisting of 17 students in term II/2019 (April to June). Journals, questionnaire, pre and post-test records are used to obtain data. The result is believed that HOT Questions Cue Cards is effective in infusing students’ critical thinking in their writing. It is hoped that the findings of this study could be used both by students and teachers to improve critical thinking in any skills not only writing

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Detail Information
Series Title
CAR Journal
Call Number
400 Sis
Publisher
Jakarta : Lembaga Bahasa LIA.,
Collation
29 p.
Language
English
Subject(s)
Critical thinking
English language - Writing
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