Proyecto (Alexis Maizo)

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Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas Departamento de Idomas Modernos Subprograma de la Enseñanza de la Literatura en Inglés Examining critical thinking skills in English V students at the IPC through the reading of short stories: A process-based approach. Caracas, July de 2012 Prof. Alexis Maizo

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Universidad Pedagógica Experimental LibertadorInstituto Pedagógico de Caracas

Departamento de Idomas ModernosSubprograma de la Enseñanza de la Literatura en

Inglés

Examining critical thinking skills in English V students at the IPC through the reading of short stories:

A process-based approach.

Caracas, July de 2012

Prof. Alexis Maizo

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STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Little emphasis on the development of critical

thinking. The students hardly ever read. This

reflects on the students’ performance, and slows

down their academic progress regarding the

understanding of written texts.

The teaching of literature as an integrated

aspect of the teaching of English as a Foreign

Language (EFL) is hardly ever seen these days.

This, in itself, is not a problem unless we can

perceive the effects that the absence of literary

texts may produce in students.

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OBJECTIVESGeneral Objective

To develop critical thinking as an essential skill to understand texts.

Specific Objectives

•To describe the students basic traits before carrying out the experiment.

•To make use of the literary text (short stories) to promote discussions in the classroom.

•To compare the grades the students will get after the treatment with the grades the same students used to get before the experiment was carried out.

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JUSTIFICATION

The integration of Literature in EFL is of

paramount importance to develop, not only

reading skills, but also consciousness regarding

the process of understanding a text syntactically

and semantically speaking.

We can assume then that the neglecting of

literature as a bridge to enhance reading (Bolivar

and Beke, 2012) in the classroom may limit the

possibilities students have to become better

readers.

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By “better readers” we mean readers who,

besides understanding the formal aspects of

language (grammar, or vocabulary, for instance),

are also able to grasp meanings efficiently in

order to whether agree or disagree with the ideas

presented in the text. By doing so, students are free to take a stance

regarding the texts they read. This is the initial

step towards critical thinking that most of our

students in initial levels at Instituto Pedagógico

de Caracas (IPC) need to develop more.

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HYPOTHESIS

We strongly believe that by reinforcing reading

habits in our students from early stages, we will be

also proving learners with numerous patterns they

will make use of when producing, for instance,

descriptive, narrative, or argumentative texts.

We follow the premise that the amount of

reading students get will have a strong impact on

the quality of writing they produce (Hirvela, 2007,

p. 112).

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METHODOLOGY

Quasi-experimental study

As in this research we are making assumptions

to try to predict cause-and-effect relationships

or the occurrence of a phenomena, we can say

this study can be also defined as: deductive.

(Seliger and Shohamy, 1989, p. 89)

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We will apply a pre and post test without a control group.There will only be a treatment group as represented in the diagram below.

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Population:

Students of English as a Foreign Language

(EFL) at Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas

(IPC)Sample:

English V students from one particular section

at the IPC.

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Variables

Dependent: English V students’ critical

thinking skills. Such variable can be considered

ordinal and they can be measured numerically

after operationalizing them.

Strenuous variables: age, gender, cultural

background, ethnic background.

Independent: critical thinking, reading.

We will use a Likert scale to determine the frequency of presence regarding each sub component (or sub skill) dealing with critical thinking.