An Empirical Study on the Correlation between Critical Thinking Ability and L2 Argumentative Writing Competence

Good critical thinking ability not only enables us to comprehensively understand things and make rational judgments, but also break the routine, think creatively develop our personality. English argumentative writing is an effective way cultivate ability. This study uses corpus analysis SPSS analyze relationship between students' their essay level. The results show that: (1) students as a whole have tendency towards positive thinking; (2) dimensions of students’ are, in descending order, curiosity, justice, openness, truth-seeking, cognitive maturity, analytical, resilience confidence; (3) correlation coefficient 0.482, which means they are positively correlated. Based on above findings, some valuable suggestions for optimization teaching put forward accordingly.