Proceedings of the 2020 6th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2020)

An Empirical Study on Cultivation of English Majors’ Critical Thinking in Private Colleges

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Xun Bu
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Xun Bu
Available Online 16 December 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201214.053How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Critical thinking, teaching reform, evaluation, survey
Abstract

In context of alarming absence of critical thinking and national call for “Golden Courses”, Advanced English course carries out a series of teaching reform to enhance English majors’ critical thinking. This paper aims to investigate students’ opinion of CT-oriented teaching reform and the role of each teaching activity in cultivating critical thinking by adopting a blended research method of both questionnaire and semi-structured interview. Based on data analysis, most respondents express their satisfaction with the cultivation of critical thinking in this course but show their uncertainty regarding the significance of upper-level activities like evaluation and role play. Also, they demonstrate their cluelessness about the effect of various group work and writing tasks in cultivating critical thinking. Recommendations are proposed accordingly for subsequent teaching practice.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2020 6th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
16 December 2020
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.201214.053
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201214.053How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, 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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