English Education Master Students’ Perceptions on Developing Critical Thinking Skills in Academic Writing

One of the essential factors strongly supported university EFL learners’ academic writing skills development is critical thinking. With supports thinking skills, learners will be capable synthesizing, analyze, and evaluate their ideas to written effectively in products. This present small-scale qualitative study was conducted with support content analysis obtain clearer data based on specific phenomenon told by research participants. 10 items Likert-scale questionnaire as well 5 open-ended narrative inquiry questions were administered 16 English Education Master Students batch 2019, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta. Based obtained results, utilization progressively enabled graduate more strategic, analytical, proficient writers. In addition, participants also acknowledged that should practiced intensively a long-lengthy process foster well. It expectantly hoped these results shed enlightenment further for betterment learning activities future.
 
 Keywords: Critical Thinking Skills, Academic Writing, Students