Abstract
In view of the absence of critical thinking skills of college students, this research is aimed at implementing the debate instruction based on Paul-Elder Model in College English teaching for the improvement of college students’ critical thinking skills, and tests its effectiveness through a semester’s experiment. The results show that the implementation of debate instruction in College English teaching can significantly improve college students’ critical thinking skills, and the debate instruction based on Paul-Elder Model contribute to the whole dimensions of students’ critical skills, including clarity, precision, accuracy, significance, relevance, completeness, logicalness, fairness, breadth and depth.
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