Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018)

A Feasibility Study of Improving College Students’ Critical Thinking Skills Through English Public Speaking

Authors
Bao Jie
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Bao Jie
Available Online December 2018.
DOI
10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.64How to use a DOI?
Keywords
critical thinking skills; English public speaking training; college English teaching
Abstract

Critical thinking skills are embedded in students’ competence of making public speeches in English. This study tries to investigate the effect of English speech training on developing students’ critical thinking by using content analysis and interviews. Participants in an English public speaking training program were interviewed twice during the program and their speech drafts were analyzed. The result of the study shows the improvement of students’ critical thinking skills and the feasibility of introducing speech training into college English class.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
December 2018
ISBN
10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.64
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.64How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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