【Abstract】The past few decades have witnessed college students’ deficiency of critical thinking. To address this issue， this study makes a preliminary exploration of how to develop students’ critical thinking across the curriculum in higher education. It is hoped that the strategies suggested in the paper could make some contributions to the current education’s devotion to hone learners’ critical thinking.
　　【Key words】Critical thinking； classroom； college students； active thinking
　　【作者簡介】方莉，浙江传媒学院大学外语教学部。
　　1. Introduction
　　There has been a great concern in the multitude of college students for their deficiency to think critically in the contemporary society. The majority of them tend to follow what the mainstream think and make an argument with few supporting reasons； their resolution of a problem is based on formulaic rote rather than sound evidence； and they prefer to make a decision that could achieve more short-term benefits. Under such condition， the necessity to foster college students’ critical thinking has become a primary goal for current high education. This concern is echoed in a large volume of researches that urge programs to cultivate students’ critical thinking skills in education.
　　It is more recently that a growing number of studies have begun to examine more closely the strategies conducive to the development of students’ critical thinking across the curriculum in higher education （e.g. Athanassiou et al. 2003； Klebba