An Empirical Study on the Influence of PBL Teaching Model on College Students' Critical Thinking Ability

Autor/in	Zhou, Zhen
Titel	An Empirical Study on the Influence of PBL Teaching Model on College Students' Critical Thinking Ability
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 11 (2018) 4, S.15-20 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	College Students; Teaching Methods; Critical Thinking; Thinking Skills; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Language Tests; Educational Quality; Foreign Countries; Questionnaires; Interviews; Comparative Analysis; Control Groups; Experimental Groups; Pretests Posttests; Personality Traits; Problem Based Learning; Statistical Analysis; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kritisches Denken; Denkfähigkeit; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Language test; Sprachtest; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Ausland; Fragebogen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Problem-based learning; Problemorientiertes Lernen; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	The critical thinking ability is an indispensable ability of contemporary college students, and the PBL teaching model abandons the shortcomings of traditional teaching methods, which is more suitable for the development trend of university curriculum teaching reform in China. In order to understand the influence of PBL teaching mode on college students' critical thinking ability, the research is carried out into English critical thinking dispositions and skills of the second grade English education majors in Jiangxi Province, via questionnaires, interview, English tests and the PBL teaching experiment. And the results indicate that the PBL teaching model can improve such three English critical thinking temperament level as analysis, openness and fair, and it can significantly improve the two English critical thinking skills of analysis and interpretation, but do not improve the English scores of the students significantly. The purpose of this study is to enrich the research into the influence of PBL teaching model on English critical thinking ability, and so as to provide some reference for improving the quality of English teaching in colleges and universities. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01