scholarly journals Production-Oriented Approach and Its Implications for the Cultivation of Critical Thinking Skills in College English Instruction in Mainland China

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Junhong Ren ◽  
Na Wang
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
University Students ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Teaching Approaches ◽  
College English ◽  
Teaching Objectives ◽  
English Instruction ◽  
Oriented Approach

Absence of critical thinking skills is perceived to be a growing problem among many university students. The production-oriented approach, an initiative to college English instruction reform in mainland China, may offer a better solution to this problem. To cultivate critical thinking skills under this approach, reforms have to be implemented in teaching objectives, teaching materials, teaching approaches and assessment.

scholarly journals Alternativas para reflexionar aspectos críticos de la ciencia en el aula-Alternatives to Reflect on Critical Aspects of Science in the Classroom

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (22) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Jordi Solbes-Matarredona ◽  
Nidia Yaneth Torres-Merchán
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Teacher Training Students ◽  
Critical Aspects ◽  
Formación Docente ◽  
Estudiantes Universitarios

Este artículo forma parte de una investigación sobre el uso de cuestiones socio-científicas a fin de promover las competencias para el pensamiento crítico en estudiantes universitarios. La primera parte presenta las apreciaciones de un grupo de estudiantes en formación docente acerca de la criticidad de la ciencia y lo que entienden por ciencia crítica. También, se presenta y se discute sobre las experiencias de algunos investigadores perseguidos debido a sus contribuciones científicas, ya que tuvieron implicaciones sociales, o cuestiones sociocientíficas.Alternatives to Reflect on Critical Aspects of Science in the ClassroomThis paper is part of a research about the use of scientific-social issues to promote critical thinking skills in university students. The first part presents the considerations of a group of teacher training students about the criticality of science and what they understand about critical science. It also presents and discusses the experiences of some researchers who were persecuted because of their scientific contributions with social implications or scientific social issues.Alternativas para refletir aspectos críticos da ciência na sala de aulaEste artigo é parte de uma investigação sobre o uso de questões sociais científicos, para promover habilidades de pensamento crítico dos estudantes da universidade. A primeira parte apresenta os motivos que levaram um grupo de estudantes de formação de professores sobre a criticidade da ciência e o que eles querem dizer com uma ciência crítica. Ele também apresenta e discute alguns investigadores perseguidos por suas contribuições científicas para implicações sociais ou questões sociais científicos. 

scholarly journals Enhancing L2 Learners’ Critical Thinking Skills Through a Connectivism-Based Intelligent Learning System

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiangping Chen ◽  
Jie Hu
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Dual Channel ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
Quasi Experimental

The Rain Classroom, grounded in the theory of connectivism in the digital era, is a mobile-supported tool for blended learning. This tool renders synchronous and asynchronous teacher-student interactions through dual-channel teaching in and out of class. In the study, the Critical Thinking Skills Survey (CTSS) was adopted to measure the critical thinking skills (CTS) of 112 first-year undergraduates majoring in English in mainland China. A pretest-posttest non-equivalent two-group quasi-experimental design was applied to compare the CTS of those learners of English as a second language (L2) instructed under the Rain-Classroom-based intelligent learning system with those taught by the traditional lecture approach. The mixed results indicated that the intelligent learning system had a positive effect on students’ overall CTS development with significant improvement in the interpretation subscale but had almost no influence on the evaluation and self-regulation subscales. The intelligent learning approach in this study is empirically meaningful in students’ CTS enhancement, but further research is warranted to make this system more efficacious in facilitating L2 learners’ CTS.

scholarly journals A Study on Critical Thinking Assessment System of College English Writing

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tian Dong ◽  
Lu Yue
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
College English ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Writing Competence

<p>This research attempts to discuss the validity of introducing the evaluation of students’ critical thinking skills (CTS) into the assessment system of college English writing through an empirical study. In this paper, 30 College English Test Band 4 (CET-4) writing samples were collected and analyzed. Students’ CTS and the final scores of collected writing samples were respectively regarded as two independent variables to make a correlation analysis through Pearson Correlation of SPSS17.0 software. In addition, Excel was also used as an instrument to analyze the research results. The findings suggest that the two variables are significantly and positively correlated with each other, that is, students’ CTS greatly influence their English writing proficiency. Thus, it is quite necessary to cultivate students’ CTS to improve their English writing competence.<strong> </strong></p>

scholarly journals Evaluation of Halpern's “Structural Component” for Improving Critical Thinking

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 266-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Mª Nieto ◽  
Carlos Saiz
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
University Students ◽  
Structural Component ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Component Model ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Instruction Group ◽  
Four Component Model

Halpern (1998) proposed a four-component model for promoting the transfer of critical thinking. One of them, the “structural component,” focuses on how to organize teaching so that critical thinking skills can be generalized. Here, we assess the efficiency of that type of organization. Thus, one group of university students received instruction following the suggestions specified in that component and their performance was compared with that of other university students who received instruction in the same skills but using a different procedure, and with that of a control group. In comparison with the control group, the performance of both instructed groups was better after training. However, no significant differences were observed between either instruction group; both forms of instruction afforded very similar results.

scholarly journals CRITICAL THINKING IN THE PRACTICE OF EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Celia Carrera Hernández ◽  
M. C. Perla Meléndez Grijalva*
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
University Students ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Formal Curriculum

University students must be critical,and for this,from the formal curriculum and its development,critical thinking must be favored,not only for the fulfillment of the purposes of education at the level,but for the influence of their graduates in the transformation Social. A qualitative investigation was carried out with the phenomenological method since it recovered experiences and perceptions of professors and students of Bachelor in Educational Intervention with the purpose of understanding from the perception of the actors the critical thinking skills that they need to develop to carry out the process of educative intervention. A focus group was held with teachers, 55 interviews and 55 mixed questionnaires for students in sixth and eighth semesters attending professional practices.The skills that still need to be developed to intervene are inductive reasoning and argumentation,important to develop diagnoses and identify areas of opportunity to transform them.

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