英语专业四级考试中思辨能力的考查探析与教学启示——以2016至2021年阅读题型为例

An Analysis of the Critical Thinking Ability Assessment in TEM 4 and its Enlightenment on Teaching:A Case Study of Reading Comprehension Items between 2016 and 2021

近年来,我国大学生“思辨缺席”现象已引起越来越广泛的关注,在探索思辨能力培养途径的同时,学者们亦无法回避对思辨能力考查的研究.结合英语阅读思辨能力框架,通过分析近六年英语专业四级阅读试题,我们发现阅读试题中思辨能力考查的比重呈逐年循环上升趋势,且逐渐增加对高阶思辨能力的考查.因而,在教学中,教师要转变阅读教学理念,从教学模式、教学方法和评价方式等方面培养学生的阅读思辨技能和情感特质,从而促进其思辨能力的发展.

The phenomenon of“Critical Thinking Absence”of college students in China has attracted increasingly extensive attention.While exploring the strategies to cultivate critical thinking ability,scholars cannot avoid the research on its assessment.Through the analysis of the reading comprehension items in TEM 4 during the recent six years,it is found that the proportion of the critical thinking ability assessment is increasing in a spiral manner,with a gradual increase in the assessment of higher-level critical thinking ability.Therefore,in reading classes,teachers should cultivate students’ reading critical thinking skills and dispositions from the aspects of teaching modes,teaching methods and assessment styles,so as to promote their critical thinking literacy.