| "English Curriculum Standards for Senior High Schools(2017 edition)" for the first time includes the quality of thinking in the English curriculum standards,and lists it as an important core quality that students must develop and improve through English subject education,which attaches great importance to the close relationship between thinking and language.Critical thinking is the core content of thinking quality,senior high school English reading class has become an important type of course to cultivate students’ critical thinking.After reading a large number of domestic and foreign literature,the author finds that there are more and more researches on teachers’ questioning and the cultivation of students’ critical thinking,but the research objects are mainly college students majoring in foreign languages.There are few researches on how high school English teachers cultivate students’ critical thinking through effective classroom questioning in reading class,which needs further research.This study adopts the methods of questionnaire survey,classroom observation and face-to-face interview to investigate 6 English teachers and 273 students in Grade2 group of Tongliao Experimental High School.The following three questions are studied:(1)What is the status of critical thinking among the senior high school students?(2)What is the specific situation of high school English teachers’ classroom questioning on students’ critical thinking in English reading class?(3)How do teachers cultivate students’ critical thinking through effective classroom questioning?Through the investigation,the following results are obtained: First,the overall level of critical thinking ability of the surveyed high school students is very low.The average score of each dimension is between 30 and 40 points,and the score distribution is scattered.Second,senior high school English teachers have a certain understanding of the definition and training methods of students’ critical thinking,but the actual situation of classroom design is not deep and comprehensive enough.Third,From the aspect of teachers,Teachers should ask different types of questions reasonably and use various ways of answering questions comprehensively.From the aspect of students,teachers should put forward the questions from easy to difficult according to students’ learning situation.This study investigates and analyzes teachers’ questioning and students’ critical thinking,and provides a teaching reference for teachers to use teachers’ questioning to cultivate students’ thinking quality in English reading teaching correctly and effectively. |
