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Intertextuality: A Superhighway to Critical Thinking in The Reading and Writing Classroom

One of the major concerns in the ESL classroom is the lack of critical responses/voice of the ESL learners. The \"missing voice\" brings a gap in the knowledge and language acquisition in the ESL classroom. Among the reasons that inhibit the students\' personal expressions are their l...

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Main Authors: Fariza Puteh Behak, Norhaili Massari
Format: Conference Paper
Language:en_US
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/1560
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spelling my.usim-15602015-07-06T04:20:12Z Intertextuality: A Superhighway to Critical Thinking in The Reading and Writing Classroom Fariza Puteh Behak Norhaili Massari One of the major concerns in the ESL classroom is the lack of critical responses/voice of the ESL learners. The \"missing voice\" brings a gap in the knowledge and language acquisition in the ESL classroom. Among the reasons that inhibit the students\' personal expressions are their lack of critical reflections/analyses and their inability to structure their ideas/opinions. This paper will show a technique that combines the use of print (a short story) and visual (a movie) text to generate Critical Thinking and how to use the texts as exemplification materials in the ESL classroom. This is based on the perception that fiction not only engages students and entices them to read, but also builds critical thinking and writing skills (Boyd, 2004). Nuraihan and Zamnah (2004) assert that the background, characters and their motives are among those that invite critical inquiry and interpretation. It is hoped that this paper is able to highlight the potentials of intertextuality to affect the students both at their intellectual and personal levels as to prompt the desired critical response and to later initiate critical analyses and reflections. 2009-03-19T03:34:26Z 2009-03-19T03:34:26Z 2009-03-19T03:34:26Z Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1560 en_US
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description One of the major concerns in the ESL classroom is the lack of critical responses/voice of the ESL learners. The \"missing voice\" brings a gap in the knowledge and language acquisition in the ESL classroom. Among the reasons that inhibit the students\' personal expressions are their lack of critical reflections/analyses and their inability to structure their ideas/opinions. This paper will show a technique that combines the use of print (a short story) and visual (a movie) text to generate Critical Thinking and how to use the texts as exemplification materials in the ESL classroom. This is based on the perception that fiction not only engages students and entices them to read, but also builds critical thinking and writing skills (Boyd, 2004). Nuraihan and Zamnah (2004) assert that the background, characters and their motives are among those that invite critical inquiry and interpretation. It is hoped that this paper is able to highlight the potentials of intertextuality to affect the students both at their intellectual and personal levels as to prompt the desired critical response and to later initiate critical analyses and reflections.
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Norhaili Massari
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title Intertextuality: A Superhighway to Critical Thinking in The Reading and Writing Classroom
title_short Intertextuality: A Superhighway to Critical Thinking in The Reading and Writing Classroom
title_full Intertextuality: A Superhighway to Critical Thinking in The Reading and Writing Classroom
title_fullStr Intertextuality: A Superhighway to Critical Thinking in The Reading and Writing Classroom
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