• Anam Fadlillah

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• Oikurema Purwati

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• Slamet Setiawan

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This article describes Indonesian university students’ perspectives of critical thinking on their
language learning in the class. Regarding that critical thinking has an important point to the
students’ language learning development, such as problem solving, reasoning, etc. University in
Indonesia has already implied this skill to their curriculum but most of teacher were focusing on
the language skill development without paying attention of students thinking development, in
which makes students have difficulties on thinking critically. This research is using qualitative
research that aims to investigate Indonesian student’s perception of having critical thinking class
that separated from the language skill class, in order to make them focus in developing their
critical thinking. The subject of this research is taken from 15 participants from different city and
university in Indonesia. The data resulted that every student realized that critical thinking is very
important to their language development, but in some cases the university still could not
facilitate them to be critical thinkers.

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