The effect of critical thinking-infused paragraph writing instruction on university first-year students’ intellectual traits

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect critical thinking-infused paragraph writing instruction on enhancing university first-year L2 students’ intellectual traits. involved two randomly selected Social Science stream classes. researchers employed embedded design in because they mainly used quantitative data augmented by qualitative data. analyzed questionnaire and interview using one-way between groups ANCOVA thematic analysis method respectively. finding indicated that participants treatment group were better their traits scores. result also revealed had a interest elements thought after intervention. Hence, integrating thinking into APW lessons needs be considered among all stakeholders enhance EFL Keywords: Argumentative paragraph; thinking; instruction; traits; students.