critical thinking and chinese university students a review of the evidence

Critical thinking and Chinese university students: a review of the evidence. Jing Tian School of Foreign Languages, Renmin University of China, 2-1401 Hanrong Jiayuan, 5 Baitaan ... Despite extensive discussion on critical thinking (CT) by Chinese students, there are still debates over the question of why Chinese higher education students, when ...

Critical thinking is an unconsciously developed social product, it is related to cultural thinking and is a kind of social practice (Atkinson,1997). If Chinese students are quiet, and hesitant to ...

Overall, Chinese students' critical thinking skills are poorer than that of British students. ... Critical thinking and Chinese university students: A review of the evidence. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 24 (2011), pp. 61-76, 10.1080/07908318.2010.546400. View in Scopus Google Scholar.

Despite extensive discussion on critical thinking (CT) by Chinese students, there are still debates over the question of why Chinese higher education students, when studying abroad, lack (or rather do not demonstrate) CT skills. The main objective of this paper is to explore how far it can be established from the published research literature whether the key factor affecting Chinese university ...

Despite extensive discussion on critical thinking (CT) by Chinese students, there are still debates over the question of why Chinese higher education students, when studying abroad, lack (or rather do not demonstrate) CT skills. The main objective of this paper is to explore how far it can be established from the published research literature whether the key factor affecting Chinese university ...

There is a lack of strong studies on the comparison of critical thinking between Chinese and those of other nationalities. • No consistent evidence supports the claim that Chinese students have higher or lower critical thinking skills than others.. Weak evidence indicates that Chinese students are less disposed to critical thinking and more inclined to an information-seeking style.

Low, GD & Tian, J 2011, ' Critical thinking and Chinese university students: A review of the evidence ', Language, Culture & Curriculum, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 61-76. Critical thinking and Chinese university students: A review of the evidence.

Semantic Scholar extracted view of "How do Chinese students' critical thinking compare with other students?: a structured review of the existing evidence" by Keji Fan et al. ... This large-scale study tracing tens of thousands of university students in China, India, Russia and the United States finds significant differences in skill levels ...

Reporting a case study of two high-achieving Chinese students studying at a university in Hong Kong, this paper presents evidence that poses an anti-thesis to the stereotypes of first year ...

Curriculum development and teaching requirements for English in colleges (in Chinese) Moon J., Critical thinking: An exploration of theory and practice Needham J., Science and civilisation in China, № 3

There is no evidence to support the claim that Chinese students have higher or lower critical thinking skills than other students. The research in this area is weak. Five studies on critical thinking dispositions suggest that Chinese students were less disposed to critical thinking, which is not the same as being weak in critical thinking.

DOI: 10.1016/J.TSC.2022.101145 How do Chinese students' critical thinking compare with other students?: A structured review of the existing evidence. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2022 Keji Fan, Beng Huat See

1. Introduction. When an English-speaking professor asks a Chinese student to think critically, does the Chinese student understand what he or she is required to do?. The term critical thinking is one of several "fuzzy" constructs in education frequently used by researchers and practitioners, yet the definition is vague to the point of being regarded as problematic or even unnecessary by ...

It aims to explore how a unique aspect of the university curriculum in China - the so-called 'four treasures' (four compulsory modules of political thought taken by all Chinese undergraduate students: 'The Fundamentals of Marxism'; 'Maoism and Chinese Characteristic Socialism'; 'The Outline of Modern Chinese History'; and ...

teachers, the meaning of critical thinking and what counts as evidence of critical think- ... Tian, J., and G. D. Low. 2011. Critical thinking and Chinese university students: A review of the.

Developing critical thinking was not always an easy task for these students. In addition to cultural background, other factors that played important roles in influencing how these students developed critical thinking included the teachers' questioning approaches, group discussions in the classes, English language proficiency, and the criteria ...

Abstract: There are media and research reports of international students from the People's Republic of China as being deficient in the capabilities for thinking critically. This paper argues for a shift in the frame for researching their critical thinking, moving the focus from the ethno-national label of "Chinese students" to ...

ABSTRACT While research exists on the effectiveness of pedagogical methods in relation to the development of Chinese students' critical thinking (CT), there has been little research on Chinese students' experiences around CT in relation to their own contexts. This paper reports on the findings of a study that investigated the experiences of the use of CT by 29 Chinese postgraduate students ...

Dispositional factors have been suggested to affect individuals' critical thinking performance. The relative and combined effects of thinking dispositions and cognitive ability on the critical thinking performance of a group of 137 Chinese undergraduates were examined. Participants were administered the Need for Cognition Scale, Openness to ...

Critical thinking (CT) is important for English as a foreign language (EFL) writing. However, the EFL writings of Chinese students are usually negatively commented on in terms of CT in writing. The study reviewed relevant studies on how CT in writing was taught to Chinese EFL learners at the tertiary education level. It shows most EFL writing teachers adopted existing western CT definitions in ...

a sizeable number of international students of which Chinese students consti-tute a significant part. Many Chinese students join in the second year as direct entrants and some join in the final year as part of a joint degree arrangement with universities in China. The university in which the research was conducted has

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There are media and research reports of international students from the People's Republic of China as being deficient in the capabilities for thinking critically. This paper argues for a shift in the frame for researching their critical thinking, moving the focus from the ethno-national label of "Chinese students" to "multilingual students" and their full linguistic repertoire.

Abstract Critical thinking is a key attribute for students in British higher education, but there has been little research on how Chinese students develop critical thinking during their studies at British universities. Based on interviews with sixteen Chinese students at a university in England, this paper reports their experiences of developing critical thinking during their one-year Master ...