The Relationship between Upper Intermediate EFL Learners ’ Critical Thinking and Their Listening Comprehension Ability

Abstract. This paper investigated the relationship between upper intermediate EFL learners ‟ critical thinking and their listening comprehension ability. The aim was to find out whether learners ‟ critical thinking ability has any significant relationship with their listening comprehension ability or not. For this purpose, at first one sample of FCE for listening comprehension was given to some upper intermediate EFL learners to homogenize the participants. One hundred and twenty participants were selected for the study. Then the researchers asked participants to answer the Watson Glazer Critical thinking questionnaire. Moreover, they were asked to listen to another sample of FCE for listening comprehension and answered the multiple-choice questions. To fulfil the objective of the study, a Pearson Product Moment Correlation was conducted to investigate any significant relationship between the two variables. The results showed that there is significant correlation between learners ‟ listening comprehension scores and their total scores in critical thinking. The results may be helpful for the teachers and teacher trainers to include the beneficial aspects of critical thinking in teaching listening courses. Key words: critical thinking; listening comprehension abilit