Title: A Study on the Teaching Model of DPE-Comprehensive Critical Thinking Development

Abstracts: This paper explores the teaching reform of the English majors’ literature and culture courses, highlighting the mutual development of affective components and cognitive skills, concomitant with the enhancement of critical-thinking skills at the meta-cognitive level. It integrates the core teaching model of DPE (Dialogue-Participation-Experience) which is based on feminist pedagogy into Wen Qiufang’s model of critical-thinking development and constructs the teaching model of DPE-comprehensive critical-thinking development. This paper also applies this teaching model to the English majors’ selective course “the Bible” and illuminates how it facilitates students’ comprehensive development of critical thinking skills, and meanwhile, elaborates on the inspirations and reflections on the reform of the English majors’ courses based on the new teaching model.

Keywords: affective components, cognitive skills, the teaching model of DPE-comprehensive critical thinking development, feminist pedagogy, English literature and culture course

Author: Lixian Hou, Lecturer, South China Agricultural University, School of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.