The effectiveness of critical reading strategies on students’ critical thinking ability at English teacher education Department of State Islamic University of Sunan Ampel

The researcher raised this study because in previous study, there was a result that less than 70% of students’ previous critical thinking level at English Teacher Education Department was in developing level without critical reading strategies. Thus, the researcher in this study used critical reading strategies which are expected to improve students’ critical thinking level. This study aims to know the effectiveness of critical reading strategies treatment on students’ critical thinking ability at fourth semester of English Teacher Education department at Sunan Ampel State Islamic University. This study is Pre-experimental research design by using a quantitative approach in which the data collection process used test method, questionnaire, and documentation. The design was used in this research is one-group pretest-posttest design. Then, the data were analyzed by using statistical formula percentage, frequency distribution, and analysis of two-sample t-test paired using SPSS for Windows. The result is; the improvement in average score of students' critical thinking ability before treatment is 57.5000 and after treatment students’ score achieve 75.7000, it means that they have increased 11.10140. The hypothesis test in this research used t-test analysis of two samples in pairs. Based on calculation t with a significance level of 5% with (dk) = 40-1 = 39 will be obtained tcount of 10,209 whereas the prices of ttable with significance level of 5% with (dk) = 40-1 = 39 will be obtained ttable 1,684. Tcount value is higher than ttable (10,209> 1,684). So, Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. Then, it can be concluded that critical reading strategies are effective on students’ critical thinking ability in English Teacher Education Department at State Islamic University.