大学英语口语教学与思辨能力培养

On Cultivating Critical Thinking Skills Related to College Oral English Teaching

思辨能力的培养已经成为高等教育重要的教育目标。大学英语口语教学中学生的思辨能力普遍较弱,直接影响到他们口语水平的提高。根据思辨能力的层级模型理论,思辨能力的培养应从情感特质和认知技能两方面入手:在口语教学中应增强学生的自信,创造良好的课堂氛围以保障学生的情感特质得以顺利发展;同时应采取问题引导法、演讲辩论法提高学生分析、推理和评价等认知技能。

Recently, cultivating critical thinking skills has become an important goal of higher education. In the process of oral English teaching, college students＇ thinking ability is usually weak, which has a negative effect on their oral English. According to the conceptual framework of critical thinking skills, the cultivation of them should start with both affective dispositions and cognitive skills ： to enhance students＇ self-confidence and to create a good classroom atmosphere which ensures their affective dispositions can smoothly develop; and then apply questioning guidance, speech and debate to improve their cognitive skills such as analysis, infer- ence and evaluation.