Brief Analysis on the Cultivation of Critical Thinking in Senior English Reading Teaching
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Critical Thinking; Senior English; Reading Teaching.Abstract
With the implementation of the National English Curriculum Standards of Senior High School (2017), the objective of English curriculum in senior high school has become to develop students’ key competences. From the perspective of key competence, critical thinking is an indispensable part of thinking quality, and reading is one of the important paths to develop students’ critical thinking. However, there are numerous problems in senior English reading teaching that are not conducive to the development of student’s critical thinking. For instance, the teaching contents are fragmental and limited to language knowledge, the teaching methods are outdated and the teaching assessment is relatively single. Therefore, through consulting relevant literature, the paper analyzes the causes of cultivating students’ critical thinking in senior English reading teaching and eventually concludes the strategies to cultivate students’ critical thinking in English reading teaching of high school from three aspects, namely, cultivating question awareness, using comparison chart and learning to evaluation. These strategies are supposed to help teachers improve the current problems of English reading teaching, enable students to form critical thinking, which lay a solid foundation for student’s lifelong learning.
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