Working Out Your Own Way Of Teaching Writing

In modern times, communication becomes more and more important. English, as an international language, as a window, as a channel and as a tool, is playing more and more crucial roles in our society and in the world. Therefore, English teaching is becoming more and more important, but how to teach English effectively and efficiently is a great challenge to all the language teachers.Writing, as a means of communication attracts more and more concern from both language teachers and students. But most students are very poor in writing even if teachers spend a lot of time and energy on it. So how to find an effective teaching method and help students improve their writing ability is a serious issue which deserves study.In this paper, the author has studied this problem and managed to solve this problem in her own way.The paper is divided into five chapters.In Chapter One, the importance of writing in terms of learning and teaching is discussed. There are some reasons why writing is so important for students to grasp and reasons why teaching writing is so necessary and reasons why the teaching syllabus and teaching tasks should be carried out more successfully with writing competence. Then, the current situations of writing in China is presented, the problems and dilemmas areanalyzed in the perspective of teachers and students respectively. Finally, based on the analysis above, some enlightenment in teaching is put forward.Many students fail to write good compositions and some teachers have difficulties in improve students' writing basically, one of the key factors is that they are unfamiliar with writing process. But what is involved in a writing process and how does the knowledge of writing process help the students? In Chapter Two, these questions will be discussed and the relevant concepts as well as implications for teaching such as pre-writing activities, effective feedback, pair work and revising process will be highlighted here.Now that we have the knowledge of writing process, there is still the problem as what is the best method to teach English writing. That is the issue the author concentrated on in Chapter Three. Different teaching approaches such as product approach, process approach, genre approach, communicative approach and collaborative approach are introduced here. Also the advantages and disadvantages of each approach are analyzed. Among them the latter two approaches are mainly discussed.Then, how to apply these teaching approaches practically and effectively? In Chapter Four, given the analysis and study above, the author works out her own teaching method, which mainly contains:Raising students' motivation to write and cultivating students' interests in writing.Giving the suggestions on effective guidance for writing such as free writing, journal writing and extensive reading.Integrating with different teaching approaches and working out the approach most proper for students.Giving effective feedback.Be a reflective teacher.Finally, in Chapter Five, the author summarizes the gist of the whole paper and proposes new questions for the whole academic circle.The task of teaching English writing has always been quite challenging. But it is workable and worth doing. So long as we put our hearts into teaching, get familiar with different theories and enrich our knowledge, we can find out our own special way and eventually benefit the students.