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A Study on the Current Situation of English Majors’ Critical Thinking Skills in the Context of New Liberal Arts Construction

Author(s)

Yanjuan Zhang1, *,Jinqian Liu2

Affiliation(s)

1School of Humanities and Social Sciences, North University of China, Taiyuan,China. 2Department of English, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, China *corresponding author

Abstract

In the context of new liberal arts construction, how foreign language education promotes the development of students’ critical thinking ability has become a key proposition to deepen the reform of foreign language education and teaching at present. Traditional English teaching focuses too much on explaining and teaching the language, neglecting the cultivation of students’ critical thinking skills. This study takes majors in the college of foreign languages of a university as the survey object and adopts the questionnaire survey method to investigate the current state of critical thinking ability of English majors in the context of new liberal arts construction.

Keywords

New Liberal Arts Construction, English Majors, Critical Thinking Skills

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