Keywords
Critical thinking
“New Era Academic English for Graduate Students”
Submitted : 2024-08-31
Accepted : 2024-09-15
Published : 2024-09-30
Abstract
In graduate education, critical thinking is of vital importance not only to students’ study and research but also to their future career success. Yet at present, this ability hasn’t been attached enough importance to graduate public English classes. Given this situation, this study, based on the practical teaching of “New Era Academic English for Graduate Students,” discusses in detail the strategies for cultivating students’ critical thinking ability in graduate public English teaching from the perspectives of teaching objectives, teaching contents and methods, course assessment and students’ evaluation, to improve students’ critical thinking ability to elevate their core competence in their research field or in their future work.
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