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Influence Laid On Writing By English Reading Teaching And Its Practical Enlightenments

Posted on:2004-06-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M D CaiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360092993180Subject:Subject teaching
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In traditional English reading classes, the relationship between reading and writing has been neglected. Therefore, the teaching work produces very little effect and usually language teachers get half the result with twice the effort. Based on the essential theories relevant to English reading and writing and the studies made in such a field previously, as well as the results of the experiment on English teaching work of reading, this thesis mainly proves the existing influence laid on writing by English teaching work of reading. And meanwhile two new ideas for improvement have been put forward in this thesis. They are (1) combining reading activities with writing practice reasonably in English reading classes; (2) taking students as the dominant factor in English reading classes.To start with, this thesis analyzes a certain drawback in existence in current English reading and writing teaching, that is, consideration has not been given to both reading skills and writing skills simultaneously in class. Thus this thesis suggests that language teachers, in order to improve their teachings, should make a serious study on relationship between reading and writing, and at the same time, they should constantly replace some traditional methods with new in reading classes. In the following part of it, this thesis concentrates on demonstrating the relationship between reading and writing. The author of this thesis firmly believes that reading and writing are associated with each other to a great extent. They are independent from each other relatively, however, they are dependent on each other absolutely. Krashent once said in his Input Hypothesis that output serves no useful role in SLA except possibly as one source of (self-) input to the learner. On the other hand, Swain also claimed in the Output Hypothesis that as learnersreflect upon their own target language uses, their output serves a metalinguistic function, enabling them to control and internalize linguistic knowledge.Among the relationship between reading and writing, the author of this thesis lays emphasis on the fundamental functions of reading. On bringing forward persuasive evidence, the author of this thesis takes an eight-week experiment, aiming to study the influence on writing by the teaching work of reading,. In the entire course of the experiment, some new teaching methods, together with some effective methods in tradition are adopted. What's more, a number of drills of integrated skills of reading and writing are designed and put into use in class. After analyzing the results of the experiment, the author of this thesis elaborates the influence on writing by teaching work of reading by five aspects, referring to the relationship between reading and writing. The five aspects are as follows (1) enabling students to acquire adequate linguistic knowledge; (2) cultivating linguistic intuition; (3) providing students with a wide range of materials for writing; (4) moulding students' sentiments; (5) cultivating and developing writing skills. In the last stage, this thesis supplies two enlightenments of teaching on the basis of the elaboration above. The first one is combining reading activities with writing practice reasonably in English classes. As to this aspect, the thesis reveals three key points: (1) selecting teaching materials; ( 2 ) renewing teaching methods; ( 3 ) emphasizing feedbacks of teaching. The second teaching enlightenment is taking students as the dominant factor in English reading classes.
Keywords/Search Tags:reading, writing, relationship, teaching experiment, influence, enlightenment
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