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Creative and Critical Thinking in LanguageClassrooms

Group Members:

-Martin ak Alo-Wan Mohamad Lutfi Aiman bin Wan Mustapha

-Lim Jing Hong

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AUTHORITYThe author is an authority in writing this article as

He holds relevant university degree.

>B.A.Ed.(Hons) (Universiti Sains Malaysia)>M.Sc.TESL (Universiti Putra Malaysia)

>Ph.D.TESL (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)

 Works in relevant field.

>Trainer of English language teachers at the School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia,Malaysia.

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The article is cited in 16 articles.

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Has past writings on the same subject.

> Pedagogies for Creative & Critical Thinking in ELT> Qualitative Studies on English Language TeacherDevelopment

> Practices and Issues in English Language Teacher

Development The publisher, The Internet TESL Journal, is a web journal for

teachers of English as a second language.

The writer is associated with a reputable institution-Universiti Sains Malaysia(USM).

> USM is a pioneering, transdisciplinary research intensiveuniversity that empowers future talents and enables thebottom billions to transform their socio-economic well-being.

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OBJECTIVITY The author shows a vivid and relevance objectivity 

in writing this article, which is to explain and

educate.>He stated his objective in the introductionparagraph which is “I will attend to the questions of what teachers need in order to develop creative and 

critical learners, and how they could achieve it.”  

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The author does exhibit a particular bias in the secondparagraph, for example:

“I strongly believe that learners can only become proficientlanguage users if they, besides using the language and knowingthe meaning, could display creative and critical thinking throughthe language.” 

There are no viewpoint of the author’s affiliation 

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The information is valid and well researched:

>Information in this article is valid. They are

supported by quoting from other sources which

are verifiable.

>A reference list is included as evidence as well

as for readers’ reference. 

>There are no opinions that are disguised asfacts, all the authoritative sources are citedappropriately. 

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QUALITY The article is of high quality.

Information in the article is well-organized. It is written ina logical structure. The main points are clearly presented

 with appropriate headers, titles and subtitles. Text flows well and no repetitive arguments in the article.

No grammar, spelling or typographical errors found in thearticle.

No graphics applied in the article. The author however,used suitable formatting such as spacing, font sizes, wordstyle to elevate the attractiveness of the article, and also tocreate clear distinction between each main point or idea.

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COVERAGE AND CORROBORATION The article is well covered and corroborated.

>The author corroborated other materials, he

adapted in appendix from Costa and Marzano(1987):

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There are quotations from other sources, for

example:

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CURRENCY The article is not current.

It is published on June 2000.

The topic does not require current information as it isrelated to the fields of cognition and teaching, unlikemedical or technology.

The article is not revised or updated in a later version.

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RELEVANCE•  As TESL students, the article is very relevant since we are

towards becoming a future teachers.

• This article is very appropriate to strengthen our creative

and critical thinking in relations to the real problems thatare so often found in the real world.

•  We found that this article is very scholarly in nature, thussuites our requirement for this critical evaluation of 

resources task.

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