Efficacy of Usage of Social Media on Critical Thinking Disposition of Prospective Chinese Language Teachers in the Post Era of COVID-19

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10.2991/978-94-6463-012-1_46How to use a DOI?

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COVID-19; Usage of Social Media; Efficacy; Critical Thinking Disposition; Prospective Chinese Language Teachers

Abstract

In the post era of COVID-19, social media, as internet-based platforms or channels that facilitate communication and exchange of information, ideas, interests, and even culture, has gradually become an important tool for e-learning research and implementation. However, few attempts have been made to explore the impact of social media on critical thinking. The objective of the study is to investigate the efficacy of the usage of social media on critical thinking disposition (CTD) of the prospective Chinese language teachers (PCLT). A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 160 PCLT participants in the Departments of Literature and Journalism of Leshan Normal University in Southwest China. The study was based on the framework composed of the seven critical thinking dispositions of Delphi consensus. Structured questionnaire was used as the tool for data collection. Descriptive statistics, ANOVA, MANOVA were used for the data analysis. The findings of this study showed that the duration of social media use has a moderate degree but statistically significant impact on PCLT’ overall CTD and self-confidence, one of the sub-dimensions of CTD, but a significantly low degree impact on truth-seeking, analyticity, inquisitiveness in the dimensions of CTD. The results further revealed that with the increase of the duration of social media use, the level of truth-seeking, analyticity, inquisitiveness of students has increased significantly, but the self-confidence has decreased significantly. Accordingly, this study has shed light on the integration of information technology, particularly, the use of social media, with critical thinking teaching in college education.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xianfeng Li
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/09
TI  - Efficacy of Usage of Social Media on Critical Thinking Disposition of Prospective Chinese Language Teachers in the Post Era of COVID-19
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Educational Innovation and Multimedia Technology (EIMT 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 412
EP  - 420
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-012-1_46
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-012-1_46
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