Assessing Efl Student’s Critical Analysis Skill In Essay Context Using Toulmin’s Model Of Argument

Argument
In the world of education that not all students possess the knowledge necessary to advance their capacity for critical thought. They only better at systematic skill than abstract skill. Even if they decided to incorporate critical analysis into their courses, other evaluations indicated that many students were not well-trained or equipped to procced these abilities. The purpose of this study to explore students' ability in critical analysis based on Toulmin’s Model of Arguments. The researcher used qualitative research method ;in this legit Document analysis and Interview were used to collect the data. The participants of this research were six person; they are four male and two female from batch 2018 of English students at Islamic University of Ar-Raniry. They were chosen by using purposive sampling technique with the characteristic of having completed discourse analysis class and have score value with B as minimum. The data obtained were analysed using Toulmin’s Model analysis and the researcher found the average EFL student's ability in Critical Analysis was weak and also the pattern they used was the Toulmin model pattern and there are no other pattern showed up in the participant’s essay This is proven by only one person who has a strong argument based on the Toulmin model. The rest are considered weak because they do not complete the elements of the Toulmin model.