• Muhammad Yunus

  Author

The study elaborates of becoming critical thinkers and some factors shaping the
process. The study also discusses the strategies the critical thinkers used in processing
information or knowledge to be analyzed and evaluated and illuminates of how to maintain
having critical thinking skills. Narrative research design was implemented by interviewing some
ELT lecturers than have been purposefully as critical thinkers. The finding shows that to become
a critical thinker is not an instant process. There is a long process and routine attitude that
should be well established such as reading a lot of qualified books, join debates, reflecting the
current issues stated in journals, attending and contributing ideas in a group discussion,
questioning the issue in seminars and conferences, proposing why and how questions, publishing
ideas in articles, conducting action research, sharing ideas with people the same fields both
formal and informal situation. Regularly doing those activities maintain their critical thinking as
well. This study suggests that critical thinking can be developed by anyone differently through
the long process by optimizing reading habit, social interaction activity, and conducting
research.

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