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Information Engineering and Education Science – Zheng (Ed.)
© 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-02655-1
On English Speech and Debate Course aiming at improving
critical thinking
QiuShuang Zhang & Zhe Guo
North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China
ABSTRACT: English Speaking and Debating Course is one of the students’ favorite courses. However,
due to the lack of experience, many problems arise, including how to choose the teaching materials suit-
able to the college students, how to guide the students correctly when selecting courses, what principles
the course teacher need to follow and how to adopt modern science and technology appropriately into
the teaching. With an attempt to figure out the solutions to the a