Language Features on the Critical Thinking Skills of Male and Female Students in Argumentative Writing

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10.2991/978-2-38476-501-0_22How to use a DOI?

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argumentative writing; critical thinking; genders; language features

Abstract

The study focused on describing how language features were used on the critical thinking skills of both male and female students when they wrote argumentative writing and explaining why language features were used on the critical thinking skills of male and female students in argumentative writing. Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) by Halliday (1994) was implemented to describe language features used and collaborated with Bloom’s Taxonomy (1956) which stated that High Order Critical Thinking Skills (HOTS) divided cognitive skills into six levels: a) remember, b) understand, c) apply, d) analyze, e) evaluate, and f) create. These levels were classified from lower-order thinking skills (LOTS) to higher-order thinking skills (HOTS).

According to the theory and research purpose, qualitative research design was implemented by using Biklen’s inductive approach (2007), which involved analyzing the data in stages: thematic coding, gender comparison, triangulation, and interpretive analysis. The study was mostly about students in Grade XI at SMK Telkom 2 Medan. The writer used a purposive sampling method (Teddlie & Yu: 2007) to choose 30 participants, 15 male and 15 female students. Understanding these differences can help teachers plan lessons and design curricula that will help all students improve their critical thinking skills.

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AU  - Puspita Sari
AU  - Anni Holila Pulungan
AU  - Rahmad Husein
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/12/16
TI  - Language Features on the Critical Thinking Skills of Male and Female Students in Argumentative Writing
BT  - Proceedings of the International Seminar of Languages, Arts and Literature Education (ISLALE 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 238
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