| With the development of English corpus linguistics in recent years,many researchers have found that the communication in English is not only through words,phrases or sentences. Most natural utterances are completed by the semi-fixed"chunks"existing between words and fixed phrases(æ¨çŽ‰æ™¨1999). It plays an important role in the acquisition of language. Nowadays it has been awared that a lot of Chinese senior middle school students'writing is far from satisfactory. Even though they can memorize a large number of new words, problems still arise from the inner process of transferring from language input to language output. They are weak in text organizations and their composition lack the expression of authentic vivid target language. So it is a meaningful try to teach English writing through chunks ,because it offers a new way to solve the problems. In this paper, the lexical approach is introduced as a new way to improve senior English writing.To write the thesis, the author carries out an experiment which involved 100 students coming from two naturally occurring classes in Yangzheng High School of Changchun,and there are 50 students in each class. The two classes were designated randomly as one experimental group(EG) and one control group(CG).In this experiment the control group was taught in the traditional teaching method throughout the whole term. At the same time,lexical approach was applied to the experimental group. At the end of the term,all the students took the final examination, and the writing scores showed that all the students made some progress. But the students from EG made better achievements than from CG.It has been proved that the new approach is effective for senior middle school Students'English writing. |
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