摘要：Critical thinking is vital for graduates in facing the dynamic life in order to strengthen their analysis ability and providing alternative solution towards the current problem.It is essential that units,courses,and material teach the critical thinking process have to provide an opportunity for students to excoriate certain problem and present the harmonious flow of thinking.Hoax news,the trending issue in a society as the reading materials,has abundance aspect to be criticized by students.Moreover,it has its own authenticity to be brought into a critical reading class as authentic materials which was not broadly discussed yet.This study aimed at paving the ways to improve the students’ critical thinking skills through reading hoax news.It is conducted to investigate the usage of hoax news in teaching critical reading for undergraduate students as well as particularize how far hoax news can enhance studenst’ critical thinking.This study employed classroom action research design.The subject of the study was the 31 students joining the critical reading class.The data were gotten from observation,document analysis and test.The essay test was the instrument used to assess the students’ critical thinking which later adopted the model of the Holistic Critical Thinking Scoring Rubric (HCTSR).The result of the study showed that using of hoax news significantly improve the students’ critical thinking followed by the development of interpretation,analysis and identification ability.The number students posed strong thinking increased from 6.45% to 72,2%.Using critical thinking can promote students’ high order thinking since it drives students to consider the fact and fake which demanding the high analysis and deep interpretation toward the presented text.
