Abstract
<p>The current study sought to investigate the relationship between critical thinking and speaking ability among EFL students at Payame Noor University (PNU) of Rasht. This research concerned determining the fact that whether language students who are as critical thinker, perform better in their speaking ability or not. In order to answer the research question and test the hypothesis, 100 PNU English students were selected by applying IELTS speaking test as the samples of this study. Then in order to figure out critical and uncritical learners, Lauren Starkey Critical Thinking Test including 30-multiple choice item was administered to the participants. After that, based on the obtained data and due to lack of normal distribution, Spearman non-parametric correlation was employed. The findings of the current study revealed a significant correlation coefficient among these two major variables. In fact, those English learners who were recognized as critical thinkers performed better in their speaking.</p>
Highlights
As Willingham (2007) asserted one of the basic yet inadequately met, goal of schooling is to enable students to think critically which consists of examining both sides of an issue, being open to new affirmations that may refute your ideas, believing that claims be inferred by evidence, observation, induction and deduction and so forth
The current study sought to investigate the relationship between critical thinking and speaking ability among EFL students at Payame Noor University (PNU) of Rasht
In order to answer the research question and test the hypothesis, 100 PNU English students were selected by applying IELTS speaking test as the samples of this study
Summary
As Willingham (2007) asserted one of the basic yet inadequately met, goal of schooling is to enable students to think critically which consists of examining both sides of an issue, being open to new affirmations that may refute your ideas, believing that claims be inferred by evidence, observation, induction and deduction and so forth. In scholars’ point of view, critical thinking can be defined as mental and cognitive activities which is a subset of three sorts of thinking: reasoning, decision making and judgement and problem solving. Warnick and Inch (1994) define critical thinking as “involving the ability to explore a problem, question or situation; integrate all the available information about it; arrive a solution or hypothesis; and justify one’s position.” According to Facione (2007), There are mental and cognitive abilities and skills which can be put at the core of critical thinking including: interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explanation, and self-regulation. Categorization and express and clarifying meanings are the subskills of interpretation (Facione, 2007)
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