TEACHER CHALLENGE IN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ERA: DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

Industrial revolution era which signaled with disruptive condition will affect educational practices more specifically the practice of teaching and learning process. Learning process must be addressed for learners to acquire hard and soft skills to survive in the disruptive era. Besides, in the learning process, teacher must also provide teaching strategies to develop learners’ critical thinking and problem solving skills.   Teacher cannot dominate the class anymore as learners can get information and knowledge from outside of the classroom more particularly from the internet. The internet becomes source of learning materials as students can fine facts, opinions and new knowledge. The purpose of this paper is provide methods and strategies which can be used by teachers of English to teach English to develop students’ critical thinking and to provide empirical studies about the application of the strategies. The discussion covers the teaching strategies which can help English teachers develop learners’ critical thinking namely Inquiry-based Learning, Project-based Learning and Problem-based Learning. The studies shows that these strategies can be applied for teaching English at any school level.

Keywords: critical thinking, industrial revolution era, teaching strategies