本系列教材在重视英语语言基本技能综合训练的同时,尤其重视高级认知能力培养,特别是批判性思维训练。此训练主要通过对解释、分析、评估、推论、说明和自我校准等核心技能的培养,旨在培育能够整合批判性思维的各种技能并加以有效运用,增强在不同学科学习和日常生活中运用这些工具的自信心、自觉性和具备良好判断的学习者。本教材供非英语专业博士研究生和较高水平的硕士研究生教学使用。
19861990 河南师范大学学习;
19972000 上海外国语大学学习;
20002004 同济大学外国语学院工作;
20042005 教育部人事司借调;
20052010 中国驻悉尼总领馆教育组领事;
2010 同济大学外国语学院工作。
Unit One The Idea of a University
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Critical thinking (I)
Unit Two The Power of Words. Winston Churchill's Wartime Speeches
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Unit Three The Two Cultures
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Unit Four On Self-Respect
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Unit Five The Price of Genius
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Unit Six Once More to the Lake
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Unit Seven Early American Modernism and the Educational Environment
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Unit Eight Empire without End?
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