The Promotion of Students’ Critical Thinking Skills through the Integration of English Civics Elements into EFL Classrooms

Abstract

Abstract As education advances with the times, traditional English EFL teaching can no longer fully adapt to the current educational situation. This paper studies the mining of the Civics element in English teaching integrates it into EFL classroom teaching, and constructs the morality cultivation EFL critical thinking ability teaching strategy based on the critical thinking ability model. The effects of applying this teaching strategy are analyzed and compared to the six dimensions of critical thinking ability: interpretation, analysis, evaluation, reasoning, explanation, and self-regulation ability. The exploration of critical thinking ability development and individual teacher factors is conducted. After the teaching experiment, the experimental group improved by 12.08 points, while the control group only improved by 0.46 points, indicating a significant difference between the two groups’ scores. The Sig. The values of the experimental group in the six dimensions are less than 0.05, and the Sig. The values of the control group are greater than 0.05. The teaching strategy of moral cultivation in EFL critical thinking ability has an obvious effect on improving students’ critical thinking abilities. There is a correlation between the development of critical thinking ability and teachers’ education, and teachers with master’s degrees are better than teachers with bachelor’s degrees.