Application Of Process Genre Approach In Junior High School English Writing Teaching

As the output part of English learning,writing emphasizes the comprehensive language application ability of students.Therefore,how to choose the appropriate teaching approach to teach writing is very important for teachers and students.Based on the Input and Output Hypothesis,Cooperative Learning Theory and Genre Analysis,this research applies the Process Genre Approach to junior high school English writing teaching and tries to answer two research questions:(1)What are the effects of the Process Genre Approach on students’ writing performance?(2)What are the effects of the Process Genre Approach on students’ genre awareness?This research takes two classes in Grade 9 of a junior high school in Lanzhou as the research subjects.The Process Genre Approach is adopted in the experimental class and the Product Approach is adopted in the control class.After three months of the experiment,according to the questionnaire results and the data analysis of pre-and post-test,the author finds that the students in the experimental class have significantly improved in the aspects of writing performance and genre awareness.When they write,they will consider the writing object,writing situation and writing purpose,as well as the communicative purpose,linguistic structure and language form of different types of texts.From the post-test results,there are significant differences between the experimental class and the control class in terms of organization and content and the biggest difference is the organization,when writing,students will consider the structure of the text and use some cohesive devices appropriately to make their writing more logical,indicating that the Process Genre Approach has the greatest effect on the organization of junior high school students’ English writing performance.The results show that the Process Genre Approach is feasible and effective in the English writing teaching of junior high school students.Therefore,in future English writing teaching,teachers can adopt the Process Genre Approach to constantly cultivate students’ genre awareness and improve their English writing performance.