Investigation Report on the Effects of Teachers’ Feedback on Wenhua College English Majors’ Critical Writing

Abstract

As the prerequisite of innovative spirit and practical ability, the relationship between critical thinking and the second language writing has been widely researched by scholars at home and abroad since proposed last century. It is extensively acknowledged that critical thinking plays a pivotal role in the second language learning. However, there are few researches on the effects of teachers’ feedback on the critical thinking reflected in the English writing. Being a significant part of teaching, more often than not, teachers’ feedback, especially on the critical thinking is not highly valued in the English writing. Through the questionnaire survey on the English Majors in Wenhua College and the interview with some teachers, the thesis approaches to know the status quo of students’ writing and teachers’ feedback, combined with the factors influencing critical thinking, it finally proposes some suggestions on cultivating students’ critical thinking.