Xuying Fan (Enjo)
Department: Graduate School of Education
Discipline: Education
Research Centre/Unit: TESOL
Project Summary
Title: Teacher cognition of thinking skills in Chinese EFL primary schools
In light of the significance of thinking skills in EFL classrooms, this project investigates the insider's view of teachers' knowledge and beliefs of thinking skills in order to ascertain the opportunities and challenges they meet in their attempts to promote 'good thinking' during classroom interaction, given the prominence of teacher’s role in students' language learning.
This case study discovered a new concept - ”English thinking" - which is subject specific, and revealed new understandings of the role of memorisation and summarising skills in language learning which challenged the traditional view of lower-order thinking skills. This finding could be further developed into a new thinking-based curriculum framework for EFL curricula.
Supervisory Team
Dr. Li Li
Dr. Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh
Wider Research Interests
Social interaction
Classroom-based talk
Teacher cognition
Thinking skills
Intercultural communicative competence
Learning and teaching from a cross-cultural perspective
Authored Publications/Reports
Fan, X. (December 2016) An Investigation of Teachers’ Interpretations and Practice of Teaching Thinking Skills in Chinese EFL classrooms, The Asian EFL Journal, 18,(4), 148-162
Fan,X. (In process) (2019) A systematic review of thinking skills in technology enhanced environment.
Fan, X. (in process) (2019) Language teacher cognition of creativity
