The Cultivation of Critical Thinking in English Teaching in Chinese College Education

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10.2991/978-2-494069-05-3_164How to use a DOI?

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Critical thinking skill; second language acquisition; English language teaching; University teaching; pedagogy

Abstract

Currently, with the acceleration of economic globalization process, talents armed with creative spirit and innovation capacity gradually become the focus of competence in the international community and the key point of cultivating these people relies on the promotion of critical thinking skill. Most educators agree that it is essential that students develop such skills while engaged in academic learning because that enable students to engage in purposeful, self-regulatory judgment. Chinese education in colleges stresses much on basic knowledge compared with that of western education. It has proved that there is a lack of critical thinking skills among Chinese college students. More and more scholars and teachers realize the importance of cultivating students’ critical thinking ability in foreign language teaching and devote themselves to studying the causes of this situation. It is no doubt that to permeate the cultivation of critical thinking into colleges English teaching possesses practical significance and attracts widely attention. However, the pure traditional teaching pattern produces relatively little effect and the qualities of talent from colleges are difficult to meet the needs of unsettled economic and social development. This study summarizes and analyzes a series of practical teaching strategies in order to combine the critical thinking with college English teaching, covering the language teaching of grammar, listening, speaking, reading, writing from a pragmatic perspective, which has provided a feasible path and idea for college education of critical thinking.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ziye Mao
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/11/19
TI  - The Cultivation of Critical Thinking in English Teaching in Chinese College Education
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Science Education and Art Appreciation (SEAA 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1369
EP  - 1378
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-05-3_164
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-05-3_164
ID  - Mao2022
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