The Features and Practical Strategies of Debate Teaching in College English: Guided by the Cultivation of Critical Thinking Skills

Abstract

Debate teaching is a teaching method that flexibly applies debate competitions in the classroom. The combination of debating teaching and college English comprehensively cultivates students' language ability and critical thinking skills, and improves the current situation of the separation of language ability and thinking ability. This paper analyzes the features of debate teaching from four aspects: teaching form, teaching objectives, teaching content, and teaching evaluation, and proposes five practical strategies for applying debate teaching to college English: taking both language ability and critical thinking skills as objectives; improving student participation; flexibly applying debate competition system; timely guiding the debate content; encouragingly evaluating and summarizing.