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Exploring Teaching Strategies for Cultivating Thinking Disposition in High School English Reading Instruction

Author(s)

Han Xu*, Han Zhao

Affiliation(s)

School of Foreign Languages, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, Shandong, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

The "English Curriculum Standards for General High Schools (2017 Edition)" takes core competencies as the basic guiding goal of curriculum design, which means a key change in basic education—shifting from a knowledge-focused model to a competency-oriented one. As an important part of English core competencies, thinking disposition plays an irreplaceable role in developing students' cognitive abilities, building their knowledge systems, and helping them apply what they have learned in real scenarios. Reading teaching is the main way for students to acquire language and develop their thinking, so it provides a good platform for cultivating students' thinking disposition. Guided by the requirements of the curriculum standards and based on the actual situation of current high school English reading teaching, this paper explores practical ways to integrate the cultivation of thinking disposition into reading classes, so as to comprehensively improve students' logical thinking, critical thinking and innovative thinking abilities.

Keywords

Core Competencies; English Teaching; Curriculum Standards; Reading teaching; Thinking cultivation

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