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International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences

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Elements in Multimedia Interactive Package (MIP) Production to Facilitate Critical Thinking Acquisition in ESL Reading

Noraini Ahmad Basri, Othman Ismail, Malissa Maria Mahmud

http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v11-i1/8470

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This paper examines content elements that effectively facilitate L2 learners’ critical thinking skills in ESL reading when using a Multimedia Interactive Package (MIP). The MIP was designed to incorporate the ‘demand task’ components of Weir’s validation reading framework. Ninety-two treatment group respondents were requested to respond to a set of questionnaire on content elements needed to be included into the MIP. Overall, majority of the respondents, either ‘agreed’ or ‘strongly agreed’, positively perceived that ‘demand task’ components - discourse mode, channel of communication, text length, nature of information, content knowledge, lexical, structural and functional – facilitated them at acquiring higher order thinking skills more effectively. Coupled with the use of computer-mediated interactive multimedia capabilities which could provide drills and exercises, immediate reinforcement and feedback, online tests and dynamic learning engagement, MIP intervention can facilitate learning success amongst L2 learners’ critical thinking skills in ESL reading.

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In-Text Citation: (Basri et al., 2021)
To Cite this Article: Basri, N. A., Ismail, O., & Mahmud, M. M. (2021). Elements in Multimedia Interactive Package (MIP) Production to Facilitate Critical Thinking Acquisition in ESL Reading. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11(1), 633–644.