Critical thinking is one of the non-subject related learning goals which students are expected to develop in British education. Undergraduate students are offered to study language through the Institution-Wide Language Programme (IWLP) in the UK and most language teachers use Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). Paying attention to these two facts, this study investigates if CLT helps develop students’ critical thinking. Using Hofstede et al.’s educational culture as a framework, the underlying pedagogies for both CLT and critical thinking were identified and the similarities and differences are compared. It was concluded that CLT helps to develop students’ critical thinking as it shares with critical thinking pedagogies and elements of an educational culture. However, the pedagogy of independence was not shared. It is suggested that language teachers should give students the opportunity to think for themselves during class in order to encourage students’ independence using CLT.

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交际语言教学是否有助于提高学生的批判性思维能力？

批判性思维是学生在英国教育中应发展的与主题无关的学习目标之一。通过英国的机构范围语言计划（IWLP）向本科生提供学习语言的机会，大多数语言老师都使用交际语言教学（CLT）。关注这两个事实，本研究调查了CLT是否有助于发展学生的批判性思维。以Hofstede等人的教育文化为框架，确定了CLT和批判性思维的基础教学法，并比较了异同。结论是，CLT与批判性思维教学法和教育文化的要素共享，有助于培养学生的批判性思维。但是，独立的教学方法并未得到共享。