Teachers’ and Students’ Perceptions Towards the Role of Intensive Reading in Enhancing Critical Thinking and Improving Students Writing Performance.

Abstract

The current work endeavors to explore teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards the role of intensive readingin enhancing critical thinking and improving students’ writing performance in the department of foreign Languages in Abdelhafid boussouf University center, Mila. English language students are facing different obstacles that may hinder their learning process and development. One of those problems can be the lack of sufficient rocessing of information, which may lead to misunderstanding and misinterpreting any given material. In other words, they lack the ability to think critically. Aditionally, they face difficulties in their writing. In order to carry out this research, a quantitative study has been conducted. Two different questionnaires were administered to one hundered fifty five surdents Third year Enlish students and twenty teachers of different modules. The analysis of the two questionnaires revealed that both teachers and students have a positive attitude towards enhancing the critical thinking skill as well as improving students’ writing performance through intensive reading.