Journal of English Language Teaching and English Linguistics
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2021): Journal of English Language Teaching and English Linguistics

ASSESING CONTENT VALIDITY ON THE CRITICAL THINKING TEST IN CRITICAL LISTENING CLASS

daniel ari widhiatama (English Language Education Study Program of Mercu Buana University Yogyakarta)
Dangin Dangin (English Language Education Study Program of Mercu Buana University Yogyakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
24 Feb 2021

Abstract

Critical thinking is a skill that should be developed to enable students cope with 21st century challenges. Critical Listening class is one of the compulsory subjects in English Language Education Study Program of Mercu Buana University Yogyakarta which goal is to enhance students critical thinking whenever they listen to particular information. However, the instrument to measure the students’ critical listening skill has not been developed yet. Therefore, this study aims at developing an instrument to develop students’ critical listening skill. The study was started by developing the conceptual definition and operational definition of critical thinking and critical listening. Afterwards, a set of instrument containing of 40 items were developed. Identifying instrument content validity is the first step the focus of this study. The instrument items were then validated by 3 experts. The result of this study showed that 30 items on the instrument was considered valid as they had I-CVI ranged from 0,8-1. The other 10 items were deemed to be invalid since the I-CVI is lower than 0,78. The result of this study encouraged the researcher to revise the instrument and improve the validity of the items.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

eltics

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of English Language Teaching and English Linguistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal of studies in English language teaching and learning published biannually in January and July. Given that the journal prioritizes research reports in ELT, viewpoint articles in the same field will be ...