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SKRIPSI COGNITIVE STRATEGIES IN ENGLISH DEBATE AND CRITICAL THINKING COURSE: AN INVESTIGATION OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS
ABSTRACT
Praditya, Danang Dwi. (2023). Cognitive Strategies in English Debate and Critical Thinking Course: An Investigation of English Department Students. A Paper. Magelang: English Department, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, Universitas Tidar. Advisor 1, Prof. Dr. Sukarno, M.Si., Advisor 2 Sukma Shinta Yunianti, M.Pd.
Keywords: Learning Strategies, Cognitive Strategies, English Debate and Critical Thinking
Debaters often use language learning strategies to assist them in studying and preparing for debates. The study highlighted the cognitive strategies utilized in the English Debate and Critical Thinking course. Prior research suggests that cognitive strategies are the most commonly used strategy in debate. Cognitive strategies are defined as conceptual methods that a student employs to acquire information and knowledge, resulting in improved learning and memory. Thus, cognitive strategies are likely to be beneficial for debate students participating in debate classroom.
Therefore, the aims of this study were to determine how debate students use cognitive strategies and the most frequent types of cognitive strategies used by students in the English Debate and Critical Thinking course. The current study provided a need mapping for generating debate activities in English Debate and Critical Thinking courses.
This study used a qualitative research design. The writer focused on the English Department students in the fourth-semester at English Debate and Critical Thinking course. Semi-structured interviews and questionnaires were used to collect the data. The data would then be evaluated and categorized based on the different types of cognitive strategies.
The result showed that students in the English Debate and Critical Thinking course used nearly all of the cognitive strategies proposed by Oxford's theory to improve their debate abilities. In addition, the research findings showed high frequencies of the use of cognitive strategies used by the students. The practicing strategy reached 75.16%, receiving and sending messages reached 76.6%, analyzing and reasoning strategy reached 74.5%, and creating structure for input and output strategy reached 80.25%.
The results also demonstrated that the input and output structure strategy is used more frequently. Lastly, this study suggests the students to be more aware of how to apply language learning strategies, especially cognitive strategies, in the proper way to improve their debating abilities.
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