The Effect of Critical Thinking on Developing Argumentative Essays by Iranian EFL University Students

According to the statistic of Levene's Test (F) which is 0.012, the level of significance which is 0.912, and comparing this level of significance with 0.05, it is obvious that the null hypothesis based on the equality of the variances in two groups is not rejected. According to the statistic o...

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Published inJournal of language teaching and research Vol. 3; no. 4; p. 632
Main Authors Fahim, Mansoor, Hashtroodi, Pantea
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Academy Publication Co., Ltd 01.07.2012
Subjects
Classrooms
Cognition & reasoning
College professors
College students
Critical thinking
Discourse analysis
Education
English as a second language learning
Essays
Language acquisition
Linguistics
Pedagogy
Reflective teaching
Research methodology
Second language learning
Teachers
Teaching
Translations
University students
Writing
Iran
New York
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Summary:According to the statistic of Levene's Test (F) which is 0.012, the level of significance which is 0.912, and comparing this level of significance with 0.05, it is obvious that the null hypothesis based on the equality of the variances in two groups is not rejected. According to the statistic of the T-Test which is -0.369, with the degree of freedom of 57, the level of significance of 0.714, and comparing this level of significance with α=0.05, it is obvious that the null hypothesis based on the equality of the total mean scores in two groups of experimental and control group is not rejected. According to statistics the null hypothesis is not rejected, in other words critical thinking does not develop writing sustained argumentative essays by Iranian University EFL students. According to statistics, the null hypothesis is not rejected, in other words critical thinking does not develop writing sustained argumentative essays by Iranian University EFL students. According to statistic of the T-test which is -0.369, with the degree of freedom of 57, the level of significance of 0.714, and comparing this level of significance with 0.05, it is obvious that the null hypothesis based on the equality of the total mean scores in two groups of experimental and control group is not rejected (Table 2).
ISSN:1798-4769
2053-0684
DOI:10.4304/jltr.3.4.632-638