The effects of debate competition on critical thinking among Malaysian second language learners

Debate is a common co-curricular activity involving most Malaysian schools at the district level. Every year, each school would send three students to represent its team. In this study, forty (40) second language learners, aged 16 years old, were involved in a two hour debate activity carried out th...

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Main Authors:	Othman, Moomala, Sahamid, Husniah, Zulkifli, Muhammad Harith, Hashim, Rosnani, Mohamad, Faizah
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Language:	English
Published:	IDOSI Publications 2015
Subjects:	BC Logic LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools PE English
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spelling	iium-498592017-11-15T09:35:59Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/49859/ The effects of debate competition on critical thinking among Malaysian second language learners Othman, Moomala Sahamid, Husniah Zulkifli, Muhammad Harith Hashim, Rosnani Mohamad, Faizah BC Logic LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools PE English Debate is a common co-curricular activity involving most Malaysian schools at the district level. Every year, each school would send three students to represent its team. In this study, forty (40) second language learners, aged 16 years old, were involved in a two hour debate activity carried out three days per week for three consecutive weeks. This activity was organized by their school seniors, aged 18 years, as part of their English assignment. A pre-post critical thinking test was carried out among the debaters and at the end of the activity, a survey was undertaken to gauge their perception of the thinking process they had experienced. The result revealed that there was a significant difference in their critical thinking skills before and after the debate activity as the intervention. The survey and teacher observation offered feedback on how debate foster their critical thinking. Among others, it showed the importance of scaffolding and collaborative learning in enhancing critical thinking. Another factor is the fact that debate involves argumentation, reasoning, explanation and questioning, all important critical thinking skills. Key words:Critical thinking Debate competition Second language learners Argumentation Explanation skill Reasoning skill Questioning skill Scaffolding collaborative thinking IDOSI Publications 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49859/1/moomala_the_effect_of_debate_competition_2015.pdf Othman, Moomala and Sahamid, Husniah and Zulkifli, Muhammad Harith and Hashim, Rosnani and Mohamad, Faizah (2015) The effects of debate competition on critical thinking among Malaysian second language learners. Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research, 23 (4). pp. 656-664. ISSN 1990-9233 E-ISSN 1999-8147 http://www.idosi.org/mejsr/mejsr23(4)15.htm
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spellingShingle	BC Logic LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools PE English Othman, Moomala Sahamid, Husniah Zulkifli, Muhammad Harith Hashim, Rosnani Mohamad, Faizah The effects of debate competition on critical thinking among Malaysian second language learners
description	Debate is a common co-curricular activity involving most Malaysian schools at the district level. Every year, each school would send three students to represent its team. In this study, forty (40) second language learners, aged 16 years old, were involved in a two hour debate activity carried out three days per week for three consecutive weeks. This activity was organized by their school seniors, aged 18 years, as part of their English assignment. A pre-post critical thinking test was carried out among the debaters and at the end of the activity, a survey was undertaken to gauge their perception of the thinking process they had experienced. The result revealed that there was a significant difference in their critical thinking skills before and after the debate activity as the intervention. The survey and teacher observation offered feedback on how debate foster their critical thinking. Among others, it showed the importance of scaffolding and collaborative learning in enhancing critical thinking. Another factor is the fact that debate involves argumentation, reasoning, explanation and questioning, all important critical thinking skills. Key words:Critical thinking Debate competition Second language learners Argumentation Explanation skill Reasoning skill Questioning skill Scaffolding collaborative thinking
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author	Othman, Moomala Sahamid, Husniah Zulkifli, Muhammad Harith Hashim, Rosnani Mohamad, Faizah
author_facet	Othman, Moomala Sahamid, Husniah Zulkifli, Muhammad Harith Hashim, Rosnani Mohamad, Faizah
author_sort	Othman, Moomala
title	The effects of debate competition on critical thinking among Malaysian second language learners
title_short	The effects of debate competition on critical thinking among Malaysian second language learners
title_full	The effects of debate competition on critical thinking among Malaysian second language learners
title_fullStr	The effects of debate competition on critical thinking among Malaysian second language learners
title_full_unstemmed	The effects of debate competition on critical thinking among Malaysian second language learners
title_sort	effects of debate competition on critical thinking among malaysian second language learners
publisher	IDOSI Publications
publishDate	2015
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/49859/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/49859/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/49859/1/moomala_the_effect_of_debate_competition_2015.pdf
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The effects of debate competition on critical thinking among Malaysian second language learners

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