Applying Research On The Strategy Of Literacy Community For English Teaching In High Schools

To raise the students' writing level, cultivate their consciousness of cooperation-competition, improve English writing course and achieve good results in it, the author makes the experiment study on the change of English writing teaching in some classes of Senior 3, No. 1 Middle School in Jian Yang, applying the Strategy of Literacy Community on the basis of Constructive Theory of Teaching. The teaching procedure of the Strategy of LiteracyCommunity is that: familiarization--joint negotiation--independent construction --peer editing---teacher commenting.The experiment is divided into three phases, of which the first (2001. 11 ~ 2001. 12) is the one of exploration and the second (2002. 1~2002. 3) is the one of formal experiment and the third (2002. 4~2002. 6) is the one of alternative experiment. The results of this experiment are as follows: 1. Implementing the Strategy of Literacy Community takes advantage to improve the study interest of English and divert the study manner of the students. 2. Fulfilling the Strategy of Literacy Community enhances helpfully to develop the self- consciousness of the students. 3. Executing the Strategy of Literacy Community is helpful to train various English abilities of the students, especially the abilities of composition writing and error correction. 4. Exercising the Strategy of Literacy Community helps to improve the English scores of the high school students. 5. Carrying out the Strategy of Literacy Community takes advantage to improve the quality of English writing course and gives a new idea for the reform of English class teaching of writing.