Both the English Curriculum Standards for General High School and the English Curriculum Standards for Compulsory Education promulgated in 2017 and 2022, respectively, include thinking capacity as part of the core competencies of the English subject. Thinking capacity refers to the personality characteristics of human mind, reflecting students' levels and proficiency in understanding, analyzing, comparing, inferring, critiquing, evaluating, and creating, which also shows the ability and level of thinking in terms of logic, criticality, and creativity. The improvement of thinking capacity helps students learn to identify problems, analyze them and solve them, and make correct value judgments about things. Innovative thinking, or creative thinking, is one of the qualities of thinking. The focus of this study is to investigate the knowledge of undergraduates in the Department of English Education at the Capital University about the meaning of creative thinking and related teaching methods, and to make suggestions for the teacher training program of the Department of English Education at Capital University, so as to help teacher trainees in the Department of English Education master the cultivation of creative thinking at the undergraduate level and build up the foundation for their subsequent work as teachers. This study will use questionnaires and interviews. A questionnaire and an interview will be used to survey some junior and senior undergraduates in the Department of English Education, and an interview will be conducted with a senior teacher-training student who has already done internship in primary and secondary schools to understand their learning and application of creative thinking cultivation methods during the internship process.

Zipeng Li. Research on the innovative thinking and related teaching methods of English normal university students. Frontiers in Educational Research (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 2: 87-93. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2024.070214.

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