REASONING SOCRATIC QUESTIONING METHOD TO ENHANCE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ CRITICAL READING IN READING COURSE

Abstract

In this super busy era, students have to know how to ‘digest’ bunch of knowledge or information around them. Every place, even every hour they will have a big chance to find it. In order to build student’s perspective broader, first thing to know is about the tools that can help them to survive. This study was aimed to explore ‘what and how’ to learn reading skill in a proper way.  For the last decades, there are lots of inventions for developing methods in language teaching and learning. In short, people who want to establish their learning skill of reading through it, they could take the advantage of the method for themselves not only in academic purposes but also in daily life too. This method is well-known as socratic questioning method. For the participants, the researcher has taken 5 university students from English department to filled 10 questions in the questionnaire and also to be interviewed. This study used descriptive qualitative as a research design. The results of this study showed that it is still need lots of revision to make a broader understanding to implement critical reading. It is also showed that university students have to read more about some methods that can help them to read critically because there are still lots of students who do not know what socratic questioning method is.