With the advancement of globalization,university students need not only to master English language skills but also to develop critical thinking and logical expression skills,both of which are crucial for academic and ...With the advancement of globalization,university students need not only to master English language skills but also to develop critical thinking and logical expression skills,both of which are crucial for academic and professional success.As an interactive and structured learning activity,English debates provide an effective platform for enhancing these cognitive and linguistic skills.This study investigates the impact of English debates on students’critical thinking and logical expression skills by analyzing pre-and post-debate assessments,survey data,and in-depth interviews with debate participants.The results indicate significant improvements in critical thinking skills,including argumentation logic,rebuttal techniques,and problem awareness.Students also demonstrated notable progress in organizing and expressing complex ideas logically in English.These findings offer valuable insights for English teaching in higher education,suggesting that debates can serve as an effective pedagogical tool for fostering both language and cognitive development in university students.展开更多
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime".This proverb now becomes the slogan of China's international aid.This paper is based on my previous empi..."Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime".This proverb now becomes the slogan of China's international aid.This paper is based on my previous empirical studies on China's"donor logic"of aid.Rather than looking at the motives of Chinese aid and how it is challenging the Western ideas,this paper focuses on policy discourse and tries to seek the recent trends and knowledge transformations of China's international cooperation of education.展开更多
文摘With the advancement of globalization,university students need not only to master English language skills but also to develop critical thinking and logical expression skills,both of which are crucial for academic and professional success.As an interactive and structured learning activity,English debates provide an effective platform for enhancing these cognitive and linguistic skills.This study investigates the impact of English debates on students’critical thinking and logical expression skills by analyzing pre-and post-debate assessments,survey data,and in-depth interviews with debate participants.The results indicate significant improvements in critical thinking skills,including argumentation logic,rebuttal techniques,and problem awareness.Students also demonstrated notable progress in organizing and expressing complex ideas logically in English.These findings offer valuable insights for English teaching in higher education,suggesting that debates can serve as an effective pedagogical tool for fostering both language and cognitive development in university students.
文摘"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime".This proverb now becomes the slogan of China's international aid.This paper is based on my previous empirical studies on China's"donor logic"of aid.Rather than looking at the motives of Chinese aid and how it is challenging the Western ideas,this paper focuses on policy discourse and tries to seek the recent trends and knowledge transformations of China's international cooperation of education.
