Transition from Cognition to Critical Thinking: Exploring New Approaches of Teaching British and American Literature to Chinese English Majors

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10.2991/978-2-494069-02-2_75How to use a DOI?

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British and American literature; New approaches of teaching; Critical thinking; Sense of nativeness

Abstract

In view of the current situation in China that students’ English skills are generally improving, the focus of teaching British and American literature should change from language skills and literary knowledge to critical thinking and literary research. First and foremost, the ideological function of literatures should always be emphasized to enhance students’ political awareness while focusing on universal humanities education; secondly, more comparative perspectives should be adopted in the teaching process to broaden students’ scope of thinking and reasoning with the help of courses in Chinese and Western literature and culture; finally, the teaching of literature should be targeted at improving students’ literary research ability, and take the study of the form and literary techniques of the text inwardly, and cultural studies outwardly to promote students’ problem consciousness and sense of nativeness.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yonggang Miao
AU  - Yuping Jia
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/11/14
TI  - Transition from Cognition to Critical Thinking: Exploring New Approaches of Teaching British and American Literature to Chinese English Majors
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education: Current Issues and Digital Technologies (ICECIDT 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 691
EP  - 697
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-02-2_75
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-02-2_75
ID  - Miao2022
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