The Other Cover of the World: A Study through Non- Canonical Short Stories and Critical Thinking

The Other Cover of the World: A Study through Non- Canonical Short Stories and Critical Thinking

1. Research Question

   • How does the use of non-canonical short stories promote critical thinking in a 9th grade English as foreign language classroom?

2. Objectives

   • General
     • To determine the role of non-canonical short stories development of the critical thinking in an English foreign language classroom
   • Specific
     • To identify the socio-cultural thinking that emerge in students’ discourse.
     • To analyze the development of critical thinking processes through the use of non-canonical short stories in the classroom.

3. Constructs

   • Non- Canonical Short Stories
     • This concept comes from the viewpoint that in the schools the reader plan is strongly determined by a series of readings which are inside the literary canon
   • Critical Thinking
     • “ Is a mental process of analyzing or evaluating information, particularly statements or propositions that are offered as true” (Hove, 2011)

4. Theory of Language

   • Interactional Perspective
     • Where the language as a vehicle that allows the human relations and the interaction in the society, the language is seen as a tool for creating and maintaining.

5. Theory of Learning

   • Humanistic and Constructivist Movement
     • In which knowledge is not received or discovered by the learners through the teacher, instead it is something that is socially constructed.

6. Approach

   • Constructivist
     • Is a learner-centered approach to education with the emphasis of empowers the students to think and rethink the knowledge.

7. Research Methodology

   • Action Research
     • Involves a spiral self-reflective cycle in which the stages are the stages are planning, implementing, observing and evaluating

8. Research Paradigm

   • Qualitative Research

9. Techniques and Instruments

   • Direct Observations
     • Semistructured forman, which can focus on human actions, physical environments, or real-world events.
   • Students Artifacts
     • Consists of archival data, all creations of students, writings and other works carried out will be taken into account.

10. Lesson Plan Format

    • Boomerang didactic sequence proposed by Harmer (2007)
      • Allows the student as the center of the classroom, and the teacher as the guide.

11. Materials

    • Non-canonical Readings
      • Connecting Cultures The ballad of Mulan Soy Negra