基于课程设置的外语专业学生审辨式思维的培养

Cultivation of foreign language majors' critical thinking from curriculum setting perspective

我国高校外语专业学生审辨式思维薄弱是个长期存在的问题。究其原因,审辨式思维课程缺失是一个重要的因素。为了解决这个问题,可以借鉴美国高校课程设置的经验。自20世纪80年代起,美国高校在确立审辨式思维培养目标的基础上,不断改进审辨式思维课程的设置,积累了审辨式思维培养的经验。借鉴美国高校的经验,明确审辨式思维的培养目标,增设新的专门课程;改造现有的课程结构以及构建整体课程体系。探索我国高校外语专业的课程改革,对于培养学生的审辨式思维具有较强的现实意义。

It is a long-standing problem that the critical thinking ability is so weak among our college foreign language major students. Undoubtedly, the lack of required courses is one of the most important reasons. To solve this problem, we may learn from American colleges＇ practices of curriculum setting. Since the estab-lishment of a goal for training critical thinking in American colleges in 1980s , the setting of the courses for critical thinking has been improved a lot and thus sufficient experience on it has been accumulated in the U.S. To draw lessons from American colleges,we need to take bold steps, including confirming our training ob-jectives , adding new specially designed courses, transforming existing curriculum structure and constructing acompletely proper curriculum system. To explore the curriculum reform on our college foreign language ma-jors has great practical significance for our students^ critical thinking cultivation.