本文从批判性思维的内涵入手,阐述了大学生培养批判性思维的重要意义,详细介绍了笔者在具体大学英语具体教学过程中的实践情况,从而提出了培养大学生批判性思维的策略。在教育领域中,最早是杜威引起了对批判性思维的关注,而后来的学者们在教育中主张有批判有指导的进行活动,强调了探究和反思,具有相当程度的批判性意识。二十世纪后期,美国的一批教育家研究批判性思维及教学,开展了批判性思维运动,把培养大学生批判思考,有效沟通及问 Starting with the connotation of critical thinking, this article expounds the significance of college students ’ability to train critical thinking, introduces the author’s practice in concrete college English teaching in detail, and puts forward some strategies to cultivate college students’ critical thinking. In the field of education, Dewey first attracted the attention of critical thinking. Later scholars advocated critical and guided activities in education, emphasizing inquiry and reflection, and having a considerable degree of critical awareness. In the late twentieth century, a group of educators in the United States studied critical thinking and teaching and carried out critical thinking campaigns to cultivate students’ critical thinking, effective communication and questioning