Evaluation of an English Textbook

Does ‘English in Mind’ Promote Critical Thinking Skills?

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210427.008How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Critical thinking skills, content analysis, Ilyas’ framework, textbook evaluation

Abstract

Critical thinking skills have become one of the most needed skills in the 21-st century era. Therefore, teaching and learning must situate to support critical thinking skills, that is through the use of the textbook. This study aims to investigate to the manifestation of critical thinking skills in the ‘English in Mind’ textbook. The textbook evaluation was based on the qualitative design with the use of content a0nalysis to examine whether the tasks and activities in the textbook promote students’ critical thinking skills. This textbook evaluation was based on Ilyas’s critical thinking framework. To support the context of applying critical thinking, an interview was conducted with a teacher who used the ‘English in Mind’ textbook. The questions analysed and categorized were the implicit questions. The study found that there were 102 of 168 implicit questions revealed to promote critical thinking. Concerning the critical thinking categories, critical thinking skills in the textbook were dominated by questions or tasks of clarification, viewpoints, prediction, reason and evidence, and assumptions. However, the discussions attempted to modification of less critical thinking questions to be more critical questions. The findings suggested textbook writers, teachers, and school stakeholders modify more tasks and questions that can promote students’ critical thinking skills.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Bernard Richard Nainggolan
AU  - Yanty Wirza
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/28
TI  - Evaluation of an English Textbook
BT  - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 51
EP  - 59
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.008
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.008
ID  - Nainggolan2021
ER  -