Measuring Students' Critical Thinking
A Critical Review Article
Abstract
Staring from the increasing importance of Critical Thinking (CT), playing a key role in learning English as a second language, aiming to develop the educational situation in Kurdistan Region and Iraq as well as raising the awareness of the CT, and being one of the most prominent 4Cs the researcher has conducted this paper that examines three studies, their names will be mentioned afterward, in the field of critical thinking. Each study has got its own methodology, instruments, and goals so it has been a must to examine also to analyze the research methodologies, the findings, the discussions, and the research ethics. And, the researcher has tried to set a compromise among the findings.
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