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
The New Curriculum Standards (NCS) for Middle Schools require students to complete certain amount of English reading as extra-curricular practice at Junior and Senior high levels respectively. Such standards encourage...The New Curriculum Standards (NCS) for Middle Schools require students to complete certain amount of English reading as extra-curricular practice at Junior and Senior high levels respectively. Such standards encourage independent and collaborative learning but may pose a challenge to the test-oriented English teaching in China. Pressed by the graduation and enrollment rates, do teachers still care for organizing extra-curricular reading If yes, are the methods they use effective and scientific To answer these questions, our research team conducted a two-year research in Beijing middle schools. The results show that extra-curricular reading has been implemented differently at different levels to different degrees. Some teachers have worked out feasible, successful methods in accord with international practices, some schools are just starting their experiments, and some have not made plans yet. By analyzing the favored organizing and monitoring methods, and evaluating their benefits and limits, this paper hopes to offer some implications to the researchers with the same endeavor.展开更多
Promulgation of the music curriculum standard has broken through the traditional teaching mode, highlighted the core ofaesthetic and deeply refl ected the music education idea of “human-oriented”. During the teachin...Promulgation of the music curriculum standard has broken through the traditional teaching mode, highlighted the core ofaesthetic and deeply refl ected the music education idea of “human-oriented”. During the teaching, it emphasizes on taking students as the mainbody, paying attention to every student, focusing on equal exchange, communication and cooperation between teachers and students, exchangingstudents’ emotional experience in the study, giving guidance to the students’ learning, and giving credit for the student’s learning. It is animportant part of the higher education system reform to train knowledgeable talents with modern knowledge structure and rich innovation whocan adapt to the modern economic development. It emphasizes on fully giving students space to learn autonomously and develop freely, andfocusing them on practice and the diversity of knowledge structure.展开更多
The requirements of "Curriculum standards" for high school students to write have greatly improved than ever. Thus,in high school,teachers should seriously study teaching materials and "curriculum stand...The requirements of "Curriculum standards" for high school students to write have greatly improved than ever. Thus,in high school,teachers should seriously study teaching materials and "curriculum standards" and pay attention to the importance of English writing instruction,guide and organize students to do English writing to train and improve students' writing skills and to improve their writing instruction effectiveness.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The New Curriculum Standards (NCS) for Middle Schools require students to complete certain amount of English reading as extra-curricular practice at Junior and Senior high levels respectively. Such standards encourage independent and collaborative learning but may pose a challenge to the test-oriented English teaching in China. Pressed by the graduation and enrollment rates, do teachers still care for organizing extra-curricular reading If yes, are the methods they use effective and scientific To answer these questions, our research team conducted a two-year research in Beijing middle schools. The results show that extra-curricular reading has been implemented differently at different levels to different degrees. Some teachers have worked out feasible, successful methods in accord with international practices, some schools are just starting their experiments, and some have not made plans yet. By analyzing the favored organizing and monitoring methods, and evaluating their benefits and limits, this paper hopes to offer some implications to the researchers with the same endeavor.
文摘Promulgation of the music curriculum standard has broken through the traditional teaching mode, highlighted the core ofaesthetic and deeply refl ected the music education idea of “human-oriented”. During the teaching, it emphasizes on taking students as the mainbody, paying attention to every student, focusing on equal exchange, communication and cooperation between teachers and students, exchangingstudents’ emotional experience in the study, giving guidance to the students’ learning, and giving credit for the student’s learning. It is animportant part of the higher education system reform to train knowledgeable talents with modern knowledge structure and rich innovation whocan adapt to the modern economic development. It emphasizes on fully giving students space to learn autonomously and develop freely, andfocusing them on practice and the diversity of knowledge structure.
文摘The requirements of "Curriculum standards" for high school students to write have greatly improved than ever. Thus,in high school,teachers should seriously study teaching materials and "curriculum standards" and pay attention to the importance of English writing instruction,guide and organize students to do English writing to train and improve students' writing skills and to improve their writing instruction effectiveness.
