Incorporating Critical Thinking in Cross-cultural Comparisons A Case Study of Teaching the Course a Guide to English-speaking Countries

DOI

10.2991/icelaic-17.2017.7How to use a DOI?

Keywords

critical thinking; intercultural communication competence; general education

Abstract

Cultivating critical thinking (CT) and intercultural communication competence (ICC) currently has been put on the top agenda in English teaching and education. Effective and successful communication across cultures is established on the premise of CT and ICC as well since these two skills overlap to a certain extent [1]. This paper explores how to integrate the cultivation of CT and ICC in the course of A Guide to English-Speaking Countries via a series of teaching cases including video clips and factual matters. Through certain leading questions proposed by the teacher, students' elicited reflections as in-class compositions are collected and analyzed. The research provides some pedagogical indication for teaching similar English courses in the program of general education.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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AU  - Xiangyu Jiang
AU  - Xin Wang
AU  - Jiaxin Zou
PY  - 2017/12
DA  - 2017/12
TI  - Incorporating Critical Thinking in Cross-cultural Comparisons A Case Study of Teaching the Course a Guide to English-speaking Countries
BT  - Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Intercultural Communication (ICELAIC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 23
EP  - 27
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icelaic-17.2017.7
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