Teachers’ Intervention in Developing English Majors’ Critical Thinking When Teaching Writing in Chinese Universities

Abstract

Developing English major students’ critical thinking is very important to the development of students’ overall competence. Compared with other language skills, writing asks for more critical thinking skills, and in turn writing is a proper media for teachers to develop student’s critical thinking skills. From English major students’ writing pieces, we can tell that most of the writing problems are related with the deficiency of critical thinking skills. Therefore, in different stages of writing teaching, teachers should intervene in students’ learning and practicing by proper and purposeful directing and instructing so as to impel students to think critically and to write critically. And gradually students’ critical thinking skills of interpretation, analysis, explanation, inference, evaluation and self-calibration will get improved.