Becoming Critical Thinkers: A Narrative Inquiry of Indonesian EFL Lecturers (original) (raw)

The study elaborates the construction of becoming critical thinkers and the factors shaping the construction, the strategies the critical thinkers used in processing information or knowledge to be analyzed and evaluated, and to illuminate 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 through the long process during the educational process or whilst in their workplace by optimizing reading habit, social interaction activity, and conducting research.