Development and evaluation of a WebQuest-based teaching programme: Students' use of exploratory talk to exercise critical thinking
| Autor: | Weijun Liang, Dennis Fung |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Dialogic
Exploratory talk Discourse analysis English classrooms 05 social sciences Educational technology Exploratory research 050301 education Context (language use) WebQuest Article Education Sociocultural discourse analysis Critical thinking Mathematics education ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Language education 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences WebQuests Psychology 0503 education 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Educational Research |
| ISSN: | 0883-0355 |
| Popis: | Highlights • Develop and implement a WebQuest-based critical-thinking programme. • Students engaged in explicit reasoning. • Students used exploratory talk as a dialogic tool in exercising critical thinking. • Pedagogical implications for the use of educational technology for critical-thinking cultivation. This article reports the findings of an exploratory study involving the development and implementation of a WebQuest-based critical-thinking programme in Hong Kong primary English classrooms. Using ‘design research’ as its methodological framework, the study investigated the critical-thinking performance of 125 primary school students. Sociocultural discourse analysis of classroom dialogue during programme implementation revealed the participating students to have engaged in explicit reasoning and used ‘exploratory talk’ as a dialogic tool in exercising critical thinking. The study has profound implications for pedagogical practice with respect to the use of educational technology for critical-thinking cultivation. This article thus makes significant contributions to the WebQuest and critical-thinking literature, extending it to the Hong Kong language education context and beyond. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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