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The Asian EFL Journal Quarterly

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Critical thinking is essential in higher education and professionally. This project arose from
concerns about a perceived lack of critical thinking development in Chinese students in a joint
Australia-China Business diploma program taught in China in English. Using the Critical
Thinking Disposition Inventory (Chinese Version) as an exploratory tool, the majority of the
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joint program students scored between 280 and 350, indicating that they have both strengths
and weaknesses in critical thinking. The core of the project was to integrate critical thinking
into academic reading with the help of Virtual Learning instruments and develop structured
teaching and learning activities in the English reading course to enable the Chinese students to
learn to ask, analyze and evaluate their target materials and consequently build up their
confidence to use these skills in daily learning and other fields. The study found that our
content-based activities and online modules in academic reading have the potential to scaffold
construction of an integrated development of students‘ subject knowledge, language skills,
critical thinking and overall learning ability. By the end of this project, participants‘
perceptions of the reading course have changed; after a semester of reading and thinking
activities, they no longer saw the reading course just as a means to learn grammar and
accumulate vocabulary and knowledge. With the learning modules designed to promote
students‘ capability of critical thinking as well as language proficiency in academic reading,
students also realized the importance of asking questions, learned how to make inquiries, and
search for answers.

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420 PAU t

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Australia : the English Language Education Journals., 2014

Deskripsi Fisik

221 hlm.; 20cm.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

1738-1460

Klasifikasi

420

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Edisi

Vol.16 Issue 3

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