学生网络资源使用过程中的批判性思维研究

A Study of College English Majors' Critical Thinking Ability in Using Internet Resources

本文通过对某大学英语专业学生的调查,探讨学生在使用网络资源时的批判性思维应用情况。结果发现,英语专业学生使用网络资源时批判性思维意识欠缺,因此学校和教师亟需关注这一问题,引导学生正确使用网络资源,努力提高他们的鉴别能力和批判性思维意识。

Since online information can be written by anyone and there is no quality control for them, it becomes our responsibility, as individuals, to judge what is right, wrong, immoral, illegal, biased or totally incorrect. This decision-making process is called critical thinking. The study involved 105 English students from a university in Shanxi and aimed to investigate what kinds of critical thought processes were engaged when accessing and using online information. The results showed that there was a need for English majors to be more critical when using online information. Hence educators and learning institutions need to address this matter and guide the students properly in using the online information.