International Journal of Educational Curriculum Management and Research, 2025, 6(1); doi: 10.38007/IJECMR.2025.060102.
Yu Jiaqi, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hafriza Binti Burhanudeen
Faculty of Education, Languages, Psychology and Music/SEGi University, Malaysia
Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Jingdezhen, China
With the in-depth development of globalization, international competition has become increasingly fierce, the cultivation of critical thinking skills is regarded as one of the important directions of China’s higher educational reform. In China, the development of college students' speaking lags behind the development of listening, reading, writing and translation due to the limited classroom teaching hours, the fixed teaching mode, the lack of real language environment, students' weak self-confidence and self-satisfaction, and the lack of critical thinking ability. The study mainly investigated to the impact of Collaborative Mobile-blended learning on the EFL students’ critical speaking proficiency with respect to the seven intellectual standards proposed by Richard Paul and Linder Elder (2013). Experimental research design was conducted to examine the differences between the non-treatment and treatment groups. Data were drawn from 61 students of the English Language Teaching department and collected through the designed task rubric and speech samples. The findings indicated that the CMbL mode has an positive imfluence on effect on the oral performance of the speakers.Additionally, The quantitative results showed a statistically significant difference between two main research groups. This study proposes language teachers a synthesized CMbL model enhanced with critical thinking standards in students’ speaking proficiency.
Collaborative Mobile-blended learning; EFL speaking; Critical Thinking; Intellectual Standards
Yu Jiaqi, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hafriza Binti Burhanudeen. An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of CMbL on China’s EFL Students Critical Thinking in Speaking. International Journal of Educational Curriculum Management and Research (2025), Vol. 6, Issue 1: 19-27. https://doi.org/10.38007/IJECMR.2025.060102.
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