The Development of Critical Reading Skill to Enhance Communicative Skill through CEF

Abstract

The study of The Development of Critical Reading Skill to Enhance Communicative Skill through CEFR aims are 1) to develop the critical reading skills of the first year English students, 2) to study the love reading habit of the students, 3) to analyze the guidelines to enhance critical thinking skill from reading instruction.
The research instruments are 5 English stories from news, letters, and short stories which are conducted according to the five stages of critical thinking development as understanding level, applying level, analysing level, evaluating level, and creating level. The research instruments are categorized into two parts which are 1) the reading sets to develop thinking skills of first year English students, 2) the questionnaires of love-reading, and 3) the guidelines to develop activities reading skill to increase student’s critical thinking skills. The data are in the form of Cumulative Frequency Percentage, means, and standard deviation.

The results identified that:
1. The sampling students from 2 universities: Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University and Srisaket Rajabhat University has developed the critical thinking skill from the English reading classes at the significance of 0.05.
2. The samplings students show the low level of love reading habits; however, after the training they realized and enjoy the reading activities.
3. The guidelines of English reading instruction to master the critical thinking skill indicate that it is necessary to support students to practice critical reading through reading texts. The activities should make the samplings students to feel happy while reading. The activities should be various and the reading atmosphere for the students should be facilitated students to feel comfortable. Moreover, family, teachers, and university should understand the important of reading and support students to have love reading habits.