Avoidance Phenomena In English Writing In Senior Middle School

As one of the factors that affect high school students' writing level, avoidance plays that deserves blaming in the process of writing certain part. At least two possible factors can account for the generation of avoidance phenomena: one is students' limited language ability and the other has much to do with the psychological factors involved in the process of writing. Avoidance is, in fact, a communicative strategy. And the use of the avoidance strategy has both its advantages and disadvantages. One of its advantages is that it can help students achieve their whole or at least part of their communicative purposes. While its main disadvantage lies in the fact that due to the overuse of avoidance strategy, students cannot make further progress or tend to make "fixed" errors in their writing. Therefore, this paper classifies the avoidance phenomena in students' actual writings in terms of vocabulary, structure, cohesion, idiom and topic. And also through face-to-face interviews, the author investigates the psychological reasons for students employing the avoidance strategy. Based on the thorough studies mentioned above, the author finally puts forward his constructive suggestions for improving English writing teaching in high schools, namely, they are the principles of enlarging language input while emphasizing language output, developing non-intelligent factors and change the standards for the evaluation of writing and soon.