Critical thinking in English academic essay: Indonesian teacher’s voices

This study was intended to explore teachers perspective in academic writing, critically. The design of this research was qualitative descriptive. This research involved three teachers as the participants who taught writing course at English Language Education Department of UIN SunanAmpel Surabaya. The data was collected through an interview. The result of the research demonstrates that all teachers have already known the definition of critical thinking in academic writing and they have already implemented critical thinking in the process of teaching writing. They also categorized the characteristics of critical thinking in academic writing such as giving reasonable judgement, having unique ideas, delivering the idea, and doing a concise summary.