Investigating Hong Kong Form 6 Students' Perceptions towards Their Development of Critical Thinking Skills with Narrative Analysis Activities with Film

摘要

In the New Senior Secondary (NSS) English language curriculum in Hong Kong, film will be treated as a popular cultural text to develop students' critical thinking skills [4]. The purpose of the study was to investigate Form 6 students' perceptions on whether they found narrative analysis activities with films useful and interesting for developing their critical thinking skills. In a 2-week period, 33 Form 6 students did narrative analysis activities with films in two rounds for two different films. After each round, students also completed questionnaires to reflect on whether they found narrative analysis activities with film useful and interesting. After an analysis of questionnaire data from the two rounds, follow-up semi-structured interviews were carried out with nine students of different English academic abilities to probe further qualitative data. In general, students found narrative analysis activities with film useful and interesting in the development of their critical thinking skills.