Higher order thinking skills integration into the teaching of literary texts: a mooc for English language teachers

Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) are among the skills that teachers at school are expected to develop. In a language class, this can be a challenging task especially for teachers who are not trained in this area. Yet, many may not opt for a formal face-to-face training for various reasons. Time i...

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Main Authors:	Mat Daud, Nuraihan, Mat Daud, Nor Shidrah, Mohamad Ali, Afiza, Juhary, Jowati, Mohd Mydin, Raihanah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	IATED Academy 2017
Subjects:	PE English
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spelling	iium-572672017-07-07T02:10:54Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/57267/ Higher order thinking skills integration into the teaching of literary texts: a mooc for English language teachers Mat Daud, Nuraihan Mat Daud, Nor Shidrah Mohamad Ali, Afiza Juhary, Jowati Mohd Mydin, Raihanah PE English Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) are among the skills that teachers at school are expected to develop. In a language class, this can be a challenging task especially for teachers who are not trained in this area. Yet, many may not opt for a formal face-to-face training for various reasons. Time is usually one of the constraints. In-service training programmes are also impossible to arrange for all teachers in the country. In a survey conducted on English teachers in Malaysia, it was found that they preferred to have this kind of training conducted both on-site and online. Majority of them preferred to have the bulk of the course to be run online. This paper discusses the strategies and approaches that can be adopted by English language teachers to develop their students’ critical thinking skills when teaching literary texts. The paper also highlights how these are shared with the teachers using MOOC platform. The platform helps to make the content accessible to more teachers. keywords: hots, language teaching, mooc. IATED Academy 2017 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/57267/1/57267_HIGHER%20ORDER%20THINKING%20SKILLS.pdf Mat Daud, Nuraihan and Mat Daud, Nor Shidrah and Mohamad Ali, Afiza and Juhary, Jowati and Mohd Mydin, Raihanah (2017) Higher order thinking skills integration into the teaching of literary texts: a mooc for English language teachers. In: 11th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED2017), 6th-8th March 2017, Valencia, Spain. https://library.iated.org/view/MATDAUD2017HIG 10.21125/inted.2017.2151
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spellingShingle	PE English Mat Daud, Nuraihan Mat Daud, Nor Shidrah Mohamad Ali, Afiza Juhary, Jowati Mohd Mydin, Raihanah Higher order thinking skills integration into the teaching of literary texts: a mooc for English language teachers
description	Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) are among the skills that teachers at school are expected to develop. In a language class, this can be a challenging task especially for teachers who are not trained in this area. Yet, many may not opt for a formal face-to-face training for various reasons. Time is usually one of the constraints. In-service training programmes are also impossible to arrange for all teachers in the country. In a survey conducted on English teachers in Malaysia, it was found that they preferred to have this kind of training conducted both on-site and online. Majority of them preferred to have the bulk of the course to be run online. This paper discusses the strategies and approaches that can be adopted by English language teachers to develop their students’ critical thinking skills when teaching literary texts. The paper also highlights how these are shared with the teachers using MOOC platform. The platform helps to make the content accessible to more teachers. keywords: hots, language teaching, mooc.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Mat Daud, Nuraihan Mat Daud, Nor Shidrah Mohamad Ali, Afiza Juhary, Jowati Mohd Mydin, Raihanah
author_facet	Mat Daud, Nuraihan Mat Daud, Nor Shidrah Mohamad Ali, Afiza Juhary, Jowati Mohd Mydin, Raihanah
author_sort	Mat Daud, Nuraihan
title	Higher order thinking skills integration into the teaching of literary texts: a mooc for English language teachers
title_short	Higher order thinking skills integration into the teaching of literary texts: a mooc for English language teachers
title_full	Higher order thinking skills integration into the teaching of literary texts: a mooc for English language teachers
title_fullStr	Higher order thinking skills integration into the teaching of literary texts: a mooc for English language teachers
title_full_unstemmed	Higher order thinking skills integration into the teaching of literary texts: a mooc for English language teachers
title_sort	higher order thinking skills integration into the teaching of literary texts: a mooc for english language teachers
publisher	IATED Academy
publishDate	2017
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/57267/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/57267/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/57267/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/57267/1/57267_HIGHER%20ORDER%20THINKING%20SKILLS.pdf
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Higher order thinking skills integration into the teaching of literary texts: a mooc for English language teachers

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