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Barriers and solutions to develop critical thinkers: understanding primary school teachers perspective

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This study is aims to explore the barriers and potential solutions from primary school teachers to develop critical thinking among students. Paul and Elder’s Critical Thinking model was adapted, aligned with cognitive learning aspects to develop students thinking skills. Qualitative approaches were used in this study to identify the barriers, potential solutions to overcome the barriers, and the importance of developing primary school critical thinkers. Six primary school teachers teaching in SJKT schools in Sentul District Kuala Lumpur were chosen using the purposive sampling method. Three research instruments were employed, which are interview, questionnaire and focus group discussion. NVivo software were used to analyse the data. The findings of this study underline five themes on the barriers to critical thinking at the primary school level which include, (a) critical thinking in primary school, (b) problem-solving in daily life, (c) primary school teachers teaching me.....

Thesis Published 2022 1975 hits Available

The effectiveness of metacognitive strategies in word recognition to improve reading comprehension of lower secondary ESL poor readers

Jayanthi Karupan

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Throughout Malaysia, concern is growing among educators about the increasing number of poor readers of English in the secondary school and at tertiary level. It has been found that a large number of students do not know how to recognize an unfamiliar word during the reading process. Thus, this inability hinders the comprehension of the readers, and eventually, these poor readers lose interest to read materials in the second language (L2). This study examined the effective methods to improve the word recognition skill among the poor readers. This study actually replicates the research done by Spedding and Chan (1991, 1993, 1994) experimenting on the Ll learners in Australia. The samples in this study are learners of English Second Language(ESL). In this study the experimental group was taught to use metacognitive strategies of word identification. These subjects were trained to use the orthographic clues and context clues to recognize unfamiliar words which they encountered in the.....

Thesis Published 2005 681 hits Available

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