Promoting Learners’ Critical Thinking through Self and Peer Feedback

Abstract

Critical thinking has recently become one of the most discussed topics in educational process. It is a skill that learners need in order to be able to think reasonably and analyze facts to understand a problem or a topic easily from different perceptions. Learners need this skill because of its great importance. However, most of them still use the lower order thinking rather than the higher order thinking skills. Teachers and learners use different types of feedback to promote this skill .Therefore, this study aims to explore teachers’ and pupils’ perceptions towards promoting learners’ critical thinking through self/peer feedback at Ben Jmil Abed EL Hamid middle school; Guelma province. To reach that aim a descriptive quantitative method will be used through the use of two structured questionnaires for 98 third year pupils’ of Ben Jmil Abd ElHamid middle school and 49 middle school teachers of English in Guelma from district one. To sum up the findings revealed that both teachers and pupils confirmed the importance of using self/peer feedback to promote learners critical thinking. In addition, both of them have positive attitudes towards using these techniques in the enhancement of learners’ critical thinking.