The Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China has issued three guideline documents to encourage inquiry teaching to help students develop their ability to question,which is a defining feature of critica...The Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China has issued three guideline documents to encourage inquiry teaching to help students develop their ability to question,which is a defining feature of critical thinking.Two of the documents have clearly stated that English subject teaching should focus on building students’thinking capacity.Critical thinking is an essential feature of building thinking capacity and a key element of the core competencies the English subject seeks to cultivate.This research measures the performance of students of two high school classes in the exams conducted at the beginning,in the middle,and at the end of the experiment period during which inquiry teaching was applied to enhance students’critical thinking ability.The experiment results show that inquiry teaching can improve students’academic performance in English study and help them better develop their language skills.The implementation of the inquiry design in teaching listening,reading,and writing conforms to the law that governs the development of critical thinking,and the adoption of inquiry teaching can promote the development of critical thinking.展开更多
“Teenagers’abstract thinking ability test”was designed in accordance with the structure and performance of teenagers’ability to think abstractly.138 Chinese junior high school students who learned New curriculum a...“Teenagers’abstract thinking ability test”was designed in accordance with the structure and performance of teenagers’ability to think abstractly.138 Chinese junior high school students who learned New curriculum and old curriculum separately were measured.A comparison between the two kinds of students shows that abstract thinking ability of the former is notably higher than that of the latter.However,the performance of differences varies by school and gender.展开更多
基金funded by 2021 Hunan Educational Science 14th-Five-Year Plan Project:Research on the Critical Thinking Ability Assessment Reform of English Subject under the New College Entrance Examination(Approval No.:XJK21BKS001)2022 General Funded Project of Hunan Social Science Achievement Review Committee:Research on the Development and Diagnostic Assessment of Critical Thinking Competence Rating Scale for English Learners based CSE(Project Approval No.:XSP22YBZ086)。
文摘The Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China has issued three guideline documents to encourage inquiry teaching to help students develop their ability to question,which is a defining feature of critical thinking.Two of the documents have clearly stated that English subject teaching should focus on building students’thinking capacity.Critical thinking is an essential feature of building thinking capacity and a key element of the core competencies the English subject seeks to cultivate.This research measures the performance of students of two high school classes in the exams conducted at the beginning,in the middle,and at the end of the experiment period during which inquiry teaching was applied to enhance students’critical thinking ability.The experiment results show that inquiry teaching can improve students’academic performance in English study and help them better develop their language skills.The implementation of the inquiry design in teaching listening,reading,and writing conforms to the law that governs the development of critical thinking,and the adoption of inquiry teaching can promote the development of critical thinking.
文摘“Teenagers’abstract thinking ability test”was designed in accordance with the structure and performance of teenagers’ability to think abstractly.138 Chinese junior high school students who learned New curriculum and old curriculum separately were measured.A comparison between the two kinds of students shows that abstract thinking ability of the former is notably higher than that of the latter.However,the performance of differences varies by school and gender.
