Managerial Decision Making and Critical Thinking in Education Review

This report critically analyzes the research paper "The language deficit: a comparison of the critical thinking skills of Asian students in first and second language contexts" by David Rear. The study investigates the challenges Asian students face in Western universities concerning critical thinking, often attributed to language barriers. The report outlines the research background, objectives, methodology (experimental research in Tokyo involving sixteen students), major findings (differences in critical thinking based on language), and significance. It evaluates the study's strengths, such as its logical framework, and weaknesses, like the inadequacy of constructive speeches. The analysis also considers the cognitive overload theory, which explains the difficulties East Asian students face in displaying critical thinking skills, concluding that linguistic factors significantly impact students' ability to perform in Western educational institutions. The report also includes the student's own analysis of the research paper in relation to other literature in this field, which includes the introduction, background, critical analysis and evaluation of the article.

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Introduction
The research proposal talks about the difficulties that are faced by the Asian Students in
their adaptation techniques to the new setting in the academic environment that has been the
subject of the long standing debate among the teachers and the professors specifically in the
context of the critical thinking pattern among the Asian students. The researchers in this matter
have always argued on the fact that the skills of the Asian students will be first accompanied by
their secondary form of the languages. The evaluation on the basis of their students will however
accurately reveal the various differences that exist on the construction of the various arguments.
Discussion
Brief outline of the research
In the context of the rapidly changing scenarios of the world, it can be stated that the
critical thinking of the Asian students in the their education period in the different Western
Universities face a lot of difficulty because of the different pattern of the education and in the
different and the contrasting backgrounds of the culture of the people (Collins et.al 2018).The
Asian students while testing their thinking pattern in the background of the contrasting education
pattern and the contrasting cultural background, candidates are often presented with the small
and the discrete items that result in the weaker arguments and similar other aspects (Stein &
Andreotti, 2016). The study therefore aims to analyze the impact of the language of that
particular nation on the different kind of tasks that will be carried out by the international
students along with the cross examination of the different speech structure that will be based on
the taxonomy of the critical thinking aspect (Ninkovic, Hill & Antoniou, 2018).

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Objectives
The aims and objectives of this research can be outlined as the follows:
 To evaluate whether the previous tests conducted by the various teachers will be
employed in the previous studies in the context of analyzing the deficiency and the gap of
the required skills among the students of East Asia.
 To study the impact of the language on the tasks of the international students that will be
carried out in the real life courses of the University.
 To study the reasons of the presence of the stereotypic notions among the various
students in the context of their anticipatory or the non-participatory behavior.
 To compare the different skills of the critical thinking among the East Asian students
rather than the level of the disposition among the various students.
 To analyze the cognitive theory of the learning practices.
 Finally, to compare the local students and the international students in the Western
Universities.
Research Questions
The research questions that this research study will try to answer are:
1. What is the overall impact of the language on the tasks carried out by the international
students in the courses that they pursue in their University?
2. What is the impact of teaching the ethnographic course on culture to the regional students
who pursue their higher studies in the Western Universities?
3. To what extent the regional students like the students of Japan will display their skills of
the critical thinking approach in their long formed arguments?

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4. What are the evaluating factors of the performance of the Asian students in the various
international Universities?
Methodology
In order to conduct the research, an experimental research was carried out in the Japanese
city of Tokyo. The subject for this study was sixteen students in their first year of the two classes
where the students were taught for a week long period of one full week. The English class was
possessed by the scores of the language test exams like the ToEFL iBT where the score of the
various students ranged from 74 to 92. It was seen that none of the students who were selected as
the subject for undertaking the study had any experience or practice in the debates wither in the
English or in the Japanese language (Kim, 2016). For a consecutive period of total 4 weeks there
were respective courses undertaken by the various students who were required to perform any
form of the academic debate that will be based on the chosen theme of the impact of the video
games on the students in their education life (Bruen & Kelly, 2017).
Despite the variability in their ToeFL scores, the groups of the sixteen students selected
for the experiment were not segregated on the basic premise of the degree of the proficiency
level. With the help of such a small sample size, there were increasing chances of the flawed
results in case of any generalization regarding the relationship of the various groups regarding
their language proficiency skills and the performance level in the various debates that could have
been flawed (Rear, 2017). The aim of the research was the modest way to compare the different
impacts of the various language choice regarding the whole of the skills of the critical thinking
skills of the various students (Jaiprakash et.al 2019).

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Significance of the Findings
Before the responses were analyzed for the various comparative purposes that will be
subjected to the consistency levers of the inter rater analysis regarding the inter rater reliability
measures with the average ratings that will differ from the point on the scale of the Likert scale
(Kalyuga & Singh,2016). The results that were published to show the significant level of
differences that will be characterized by the English debate on the basis of the cross examination
of the different speeches that are the constructive, the cross examination and the rebuttal
speeches that were examined by t4eh teachers (Zambrano et.al 2018).The results also reflected
the logical and the structured framework that will include the major arguments of the case of the
individuals (Little, 2018). The students will also have time to prepare for different speeches that
would not be not affected to a vast extent by the gap in the language or the various other
language barriers. So the results were such that with the Japanese speeches that will be translated
into the English language (Ayoob,Owen & Lee, (2020).
Critical Evaluation
The research made on the adoption of the English language by the Asian students in the
Western countries can be credited due to its persuasive and the logical mode of the
argumentative frameworks that will be supported by the trustworthy nature of the students who
were learning the English language in the Western University by the sufficient level of the
evidences who generally bear a trustworthy nature. The weakness of this research however lies
in the failure in the context of the constructive speeches that remain inadequate to clarify the
fundamental terms of the debate on the well-constructed and the major points that will be backed
by the reliable and the different data based evidence (Montrieux & Schellens, 2018).

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Both the ratings and the comments will result in the significant level of the differences
that will evaluate the quality of the speeches that will be framed in the logical structure and will
determine the way in which the Japanese will evaluate the greater depth and the higher levels of
the persuasive strengths that will give the wider and the stronger range of the implications that
will provide the required levels of the supportive evidence (Millo, Barman & Hall,2016). They
will include the various sources of bot the languages pattern that will include not only the
references but also the level of the academic work that will include the blog posts and the
different websites of the unidentified origin (Zhu & Rutherford, 2019).The possible reason for
such evidence will be the kind of the sources that will be considered as acceptable in the
academic work that will tend to persist longer than the previous studies. This would explain the
reason why the students who participated in the English debate will tend to choose the shorter yet
the easier sources in both English and their regional language which was Japanese in this case
(Kirschner et.al 2018).
Conclusion
Finally, it can be stated that while carrying out the spontaneous form of the speeches
specifically, the students who are falling under the category of the English speaking students
who is in the habit of speaking English. According to the theory of the cognitive overload, the
amount of the information will be stored in the processing of the working theory that will exist
on a limited basis along with the critical thinking skills of the different individuals. The students
will also be unable to bear the cognitive research tool in the explanation of the cognitive
performance based on the other studies that will bear the main ideology of the critical thinking
skills.

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It can be concluded that the theory of cognitive speeches will help the students to explain
tea in reason why the East Asian Students will struggle for displaying the adequate skills of the
critical thinking measures in the context of the several Western institutions. The main purpose of
this study will be therefore regarding the attributes which are associated to the gap in the
language learning process. Above all the students should bear the critical sensitivity levels in
order to face the significant challenges by the linguistic determined tasks undertaken by the
students who are learning English in the Western Educational institutions (Le,2018).

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