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Investigating Form 6 Students’ Development on Their Critical Thinking Skills with Narrative Analysis Activities with Film: A Case Study of a Hong Kong Language Classroom

Paul Chi-hong Lip

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

Few studies on critical analysis activities with film for senior secondary students in Hong Kong have been conducted as most studies were done at university level and abroad. Also, previous studies have not validated whether students have developed their critical thinking skills after doing different critical analysis activities with film, as their main focus were on students’ perceptions. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether Form 6 students’ actually developed critical thinking skills after doing narrative analysis activities with film in Hong Kong. For two weeks, students did narrative analysis activities with films in two rounds for two different films. Students’ worksheets for the two rounds were assessed with a checklist by the researcher and an external marker to check whether students had developed critical thinking skills. The checklist assessment results showed that students actually developed critical thinking skills, which suggested that narrative analysis activities with film could be useful activities that Hong Kong English teachers could use to help their students to develop their critical thinking skills.