“项目式”教学模式对提高学生思辨能力的效果和作用研究——以英国文学课程《傲慢与偏见》教学实践为例

The Effect and Function of "Project-based" Teaching Mode on Improving Students’ Critical Thinking Skills——taking the Teaching Practice of British literature Pride and Prejudice

培养学生思辨能力是大学学习的重要任务,也是高等教育的目标之一。本文尝试了在英国文学课程中引入"项目式"教学法(project-based learning),将课题任务设计成项目分配给学生,让学生形成学习小组,最终以Powerpoint形式在课堂上展示项目成果,并形成分别来自师生两方面的项目评价反馈。通过实践证明,"项目式"教学法的实施,不仅提升了学生对英国文学课程的好奇心和积极性,而且很大的激发了学生的学习潜能,提高了他们的自主学习能力和研究探索能力,最终在学习中提升了他们的思辨能力。

Cultivating students’ critical thinking skills is an important task of college learning and is also one of the goals of higher education.This paper focuses on the application of project-based learning in British literature teaching class. The whole activity consists of four steps: designing the learning tasks into project and distributing them to students, organizing students into different learning groups, demonstrating their Powerpoint in the classroom and evaluating both by students themselves and teachers. It has been proved that project-based learning can promote students’ curiosity and enthusiasm, stimulate students’ learning potentials, enhance their self-learning abilities and research abilities and finally improve their critical thinking skills through learning.