Author(s)

Jixian Wang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Huzhou University, Huzhou, 313000, China

Corresponding Author

Jixian Wang

ABSTRACT

The paper focuses on the central topic of critical and innovative thinking in the English writing of Chinese undergraduate college students. The two dimensions of critical-thinking and problem-solving competence are analysed from the evaluations of student authors and the teacher judges. The writing data analysed are from corpus based on 2012 FLTRP ETIC CUP writing. The theme topic of the writing competition is what kind of lifestyle changes have been brought to people by human progress and technology and what enlightenment it has for the future. Around this theme, it can be seen that the college student author can not only explain and understand the central idea deeply, but also analyze its influence from a critical thinking perspective. In the argumentation three new innovative ideas are put forward. It can be seen from the analysis that the English argumentative writing of Chinese undergraduates basically belongs to the English discourse system with critical and innovative thinking. Although there are occasional non-standard Chinglish expressions, this deficiency will be worth attention and further improvement in teaching L2 Englsih writing in the future. This study is of great significance to the reform of teaching EFL writing , which is conducive to stimulate the critical thinking of Chinese undergraduate English L2 writers and improve their innovative consciousness.

KEYWORDS

Chinese college students, Efl writing, Critical thinking, Corpus linguistics

CITE THIS PAPER

Jixian Wang, A Study on Critical Thinking of Chinese College L2 English Writers. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2022) Vol. 6: 52-56. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2022.060310.

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