Chapter l Introduction
1.1 Research Purpose
1.2 Research Questions
1.3 Research Methodology
1.4 Significance of the Study
1.5 Outline of the Book
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Critical Thinking
2.1.1 Definition of Critical Thinking
2.1.2 Critical Thinking Skills
2.1.3 Critical Thinking in Education .
2.1.4 Studies on Critical Thinking Home and Abroad
2.2 Writing Tasks
2.2.1 Types of Writing Tasks
2.2.2 Task-based Writing Pedagogy
2.3 Action Research
2.3.1 A Historical Overview of Action Research
2.3.2 Definition of Action Research
2.3.3 Classification of Action Research
2.3.4 Characteristics of Action Research
Chapter 3 Teachers' Perception towards Critical Thinking and Students' Performance in EFL Writing
3.1 College English Teachers' Perception towards Critical Thinking
3.1.1 Participants
3.1.2 Instruments
3.1.3 Results and Findings
3.2 Assessment of Critical Thinking Abilities in EFL Writing
3.2.1 Setting and Participants
3.2.2 Instrument
3.2.3 Inter-rater Reliability
3.2.4 Research Procedure
3.2.5 Results and Discussion
Chapter 4 The First Round of Action Research
4.1 Research Purposes
4.2 Planning
4.2.1 Transfer from Product Writing to Process Writing
4.2.2 Teachers' Written Feedback Focused on Writing Content
4.2.3 Teachers' Feedback in the form of Socratic Questioning
4.3 Action
4.4 Observation
4.4.1 Obvious Achievements in Evaluation and Explanation .
4.4.2 Arising Problems
4.5 Reflection
4.5.1 Teachers' Feedback in the form of Questions
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Chapter 5 The Second Round of Action Research
Chapter 6 The Third Round of Action Research
Chapter 7 Conclusion and Implication
AppendixⅠ
AppendixⅡ
AppendixⅢ
AppendixⅣ
AppendixⅤ
AppendixⅥ
Bibliography
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