NDLI: On the Relationship between Iranian EFL Students ’ Critical Thinking Ability and Their Reading Comprehension Micro-Skills

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On the Relationship between Iranian EFL Students ’ Critical Thinking Ability and Their Reading Comprehension Micro-Skills

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Author	Ghorbandordinejad, Farhad Heydari, Mokhtar
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	It is hypothesized in the present study that when learners read an English text, they use their critical thinking ability beyond the language components such as meaning of words and structure of sentences to understand it better. The major goal of the present study is to examine whether there is any relationship between the learners‟ critical thinking ability and their reading comprehension score in general and their micro-skills (i.e. inference, main idea, and specific details) in particular. Also, this study tries to investigate the difference between the learners‟ critical thinking ability and their reading comprehension skills with regard to their gender. For this purpose, 120 (68 females and 52 males) Iranian EFL students majoring in Translation, English literature and English teaching of the English department in Isfahan state university in Iran participated by accomplishing two tests. This study showed that there is a close relationship between the learner‟s critical thinking ability and their reading comprehension score (r = .73), and their reading micro-skills: inference (r = .64), main idea (r = .63), and specific details (r = .53). On the other hand the study showed that gender is not a determinant in critical thinking ability nor in reading comprehension.
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