A Study On English Writing Strategies By Senior Middle Students

Writing is an important part in studying English. "Writing makes an exact man"(Francis Bacon, an British philosopher, in the 17th century). The teaching aims in syllabus of China' s middle school provided for just like this: The senior middle school students must have certain skills about listening, speaking, reading and writing. Listening and speaking first, then reading, writing following. This doesn't mean writing is not as important as the other skills, but writing, this kind of skill is very difficult to develop difficultly among the four skills. Writing is very different from speaking, so writing requirs a higher standard of practice.At present, Communication Language Teaching considers writing as a kind of communication ability for passing on information in written English. Successful learners must be provided with this ability. During the course of reforming foreign language teaching, we make great efforts to change this phenomenon "deaf and dumb English", that is to say, we should strenghen listening and speaking practice constantly. However, if there is so-called,' illiterate English" in our English teaching, that means our teaching is a failure. We have gained much experience in teaching reading comprehension, but we should admit we are poor in teaching of writing. In recent years,writing is brought in NMET (National Matriculation English Test) and it makes up a higher score, thus this attract us more concern about it.Combining with the practice of English teaching in a senior middle school, intending to cultivate the writing ability of students by using writing strategy. This paper is of the opinion that some effective and reasonable methods should be concluded. However, the growing use and importance of English places extra demands on L2 teachers of English to provide school leavers with life-long learning techniques that will enable them to continue learning English independently after finishing compulsory education.