近年来,通识教育和批判性思维培养受到学界的青睐和推崇。本文通过文献研究,对两者的定义和关系进行了梳理,认为通识教育的目标之一即是培养学生的批判性思维,而发展学生的批判性思维是可以通过外语通识教育来实现的,并论证了在外语通识教育中培养学生批判性思维的必要性。 In recent years, general education and the development of critical thinking are favored and respected by the academic community. Through literature review, this paper sorts out the definition and relationship between the two, and thinks that one of the goals of general education is to foster students ’critical thinking while developing students’ critical thinking can be achieved through foreign language general education , And demonstrates the necessity of developing students’ critical thinking in foreign language general education.