The correlation between students' critical thingking ability, reading and listening comprehension at English teacher education Department of UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya

University or other higher education strive to develop learners’ competence and knowledge. Critical thinking is one of the concepts which can optimize students in controlling them-selves to be good in many aspects, such as knowledge, skills, and competence, especially in language. The present study aims to measure students' critical thinking ability whether it has a correlation with reading and listening comprehension. Previous research, the researcher just focus on multiple intelligence, learning style, and positive behaviorism in English Teacher Education Department. The subject of this research is 2nd semester students of English Teacher Education Department at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya. This quantitative research utilized PPMC (Pearson Product Moment Correlation) to find the correlation between the independent variable (Critical Thinking) and the dependent variable (Reading and Listening Comprehension). The instruments of this research are test and document. The data on critical thinking test were collected from critical thinking test developed based on Watson – Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal – UK Edition. The data on reading and listening comprehension were collected from document of reading and listening comprehensions’ section of students’ TOEFL scores. The result shows that students in a 2nd semester are in the level on the beginning thinker. From the analysis of the result of students' critical thinking ability with reading and listening comprehension, it is found that there is no significant correlation between students' critical thinking ability with reading and listening comprehension because of all of the sig. is higher than the standard level of significant (0.05) the Pearson Correlation of reading comprehension = -0.041 (Sig = 0.715) and listening comprehension = -0.055 (Sig = 0.629). So, improving and guiding students’ critical thinking ability need to do as early as possible