THE EFFECTIVENESS OF APPLYING CONSTRUCTIVE CONTROVERSY METHOD IN GAINING STUDENT’S CRITICAL THINKING FOR WRITING ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY

• Main Authors: Cahya Komara, Widi Sriyanto
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: English Education Department 2018-11-01
• Series: Getsempena English Education Journal
• Online Access: http://geej.stkipgetsempena.ac.id/home/article/view/126

<p><strong>A</strong><strong>b</strong><strong>stract</strong><strong></strong></p><p>This research examined the effectiveness of applying Constructive Controversy method in terms of gaining student’s critical thinking, thus their argumentative writing become solid. By using quasi-experimental design, this research took 20 students as respondents from both two classes, V-A as experiment class and V-B as control class. The scores of pre-test and post-test gathered from both classes are tested first through pre-requisites analysis; Normality of Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Homogeneity of Fisher. Then, the result of t-test showed that the t-observed was 2.88, and t-table was 2.02 on level of significance 0.05 with degree of freedom (df = n + n – 2) was 38. Regarding to the calculation, t_o &gt; t_twhich means H_o hypothesis is rejected meanwhile H_i hypothesis is accepted. Therefore, Constructive Controversy method is effective to help students in gaining their critical thinking known from their arguments when writing argumentative essay.    </p><p> </p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> <em>Writing, Argumentative Essay, Constructive Controversy, Critical Thinking</em></p>