Influence Of Combination Of Reading And Writing On Writing Of Junior Middle School Students

With the progress of globalization, English as an international language becomes more and more important. There has already been tremendous scholarship on learning English as a foreign language. In China, "the earlier, the better" in learning English has been widely recognized and the English proficiency of Chinese students has been improved remarkably in terms of listening and speaking. In comparison, however, their writing fails to see the same improvement. In junior middle schools, because of the large size of the class and the limit of class hours, it is very difficult for the teachers to give every student appropriate and adequate guidance in composition. In addition, owing to the lack of a systematic methodology, the teachers pay more attention to correcting errors than introducing writing skills.This research attempts to combine efficiently the teaching of reading and writing. Based on the theories of Coherence and Cohesion of the Discourses, Schema and Gestalt Psychology, the thesis aims to exemplify that it is possible to improve students'reading and writing ability by discourse analysis. By analyzing the discourse's schema, coherence and cohesion, etc., this study adds the "Up to Bottom" teaching method to the traditional "Bottom to Up" method, and thus intensifies students'awareness of discourse. It is expected that students can learn to arrange the schema before they begin to write and apply certain methods of coherence and cohesion to their own compositions.