THE EFFECTIVENESS OF APPLYING CONSTRUCTIVE CONTROVERSY METHOD IN GAINING STUDENT'S CRITICAL THINKING FOR WRITING ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY
<p><strong>A</strong><strong>b</strong><strong>stract</strong><strong></strong></p><p>This research examined the effectiveness of applying Constructive Controversy method in terms of gaining student's critical thinking, thus thei...
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English Education Department,
2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | <p><strong>A</strong><strong>b</strong><strong>stract</strong><strong></strong></p><p>This research examined the effectiveness of applying Constructive Controversy method in terms of gaining student's critical thinking, thus their argumentative writing become solid. By using quasi-experimental design, this research took 20 students as respondents from both two classes, V-A as experiment class and V-B as control class. The scores of pre-test and post-test gathered from both classes are tested first through pre-requisites analysis; Normality of Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Homogeneity of Fisher. Then, the result of t-test showed that the t-observed was 2.88, and t-table was 2.02 on level of significance 0.05 with degree of freedom (df = n + n - 2) was 38. Regarding to the calculation, t<sub>o</sub> > t<sub>t </sub>which means H<sub>o</sub> hypothesis is rejected meanwhile H<sub>i</sub> hypothesis is accepted. Therefore, Constructive Controversy method is effective to help students in gaining their critical thinking known from their arguments when writing argumentative essay. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> <em>Writing, Argumentative Essay, Constructive Controversy, Critical Thinking</em></p> |
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