Creative and Critical Thinking in Language Classrooms

Group Members: -Martin ak Alo -Wan Mohamad Lutfi Aiman bin Wan Mustapha -Lim Jing Hong

AUTHORITY
The 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.

 The article is cited in 16 articles.

 Has past writings on the same subject.

> Pedagogies for Creative & Critical Thinking in ELT > Qualitative Studies on English Language Teacher Development > 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 institutionUniversiti Sains Malaysia(USM). > USM is a pioneering, transdisciplinary research intensive university that empowers future talents and enables the bottom billions to transform their socio-economic wellbeing.

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 introduction paragraph 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.

 The author does exhibit a particular bias in the second

paragraph, for example:

I strongly believe that learners can only become proficient language users if they, besides using the language and knowing the meaning, could display creative and critical thinking through the language.

There are no viewpoint of the authors affiliation

 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 as facts, all the authoritative sources are cited appropriately.

QUALITY
The article is of high quality.
Information in the article is well-organized. It is written in

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

COVERAGE AND CORROBORATION

The article is well covered and corroborated.

>The author corroborated other materials, he

adapted in appendix from Costa and Marzano (1987):

 There are quotations from other sources, for example:

CURRENCY
The article is not current.
It is published on June 2000. The topic does not require current information as it is

related to the fields of cognition and teaching, unlike medical or technology. The article is not revised or updated in a later version.

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 that are so often found in the real world. We found that this article is very scholarly in nature, thus suites our requirement for this critical evaluation of resources task.