该文旨在帮助教师在英语教学中,通过项目学习来鼓励和培养学生的批判性思维。该文首先探讨了批判性思维的定义及重要性,然后简要阐述了项目学习对于批判性思维形成的作用,最后从项目学习方面介绍了在英语课堂中鼓励和培养学生批判性思维的两种组织形式。基于项目学习的英语教学有利于可以提高学生的批判性思维能力,有利于培养学生独立进行英语学习和在学习过程中分析问题和解决问题的能力。 This article aims to help teachers in English teaching, through project learning to encourage and develop students’ critical thinking. This article first explores the definition and importance of critical thinking, and then briefly explains the role of project learning in forming critical thinking. Finally, it introduces two kinds of organizations that encourage and develop students’ critical thinking in English learning from the aspect of project learning form. The English teaching based on project learning helps to improve students’ critical thinking ability and helps students develop their ability to learn English independently and analyze and solve problems in the process of learning.