Integrating Process Approach With Product Approach In Teaching English Writing In Senior Middle School

With the development of the international communication and globalization, English writing, as an important communicative means, is widely used in a variety of fields. Therefore, the new English Curriculum Standard for Ordinary Middle School made greater demands on English writing ability for Chinese middle school students. But English writing is a complex integrative process of comprehensive skill, which is very difficult to master in a short period, especially for the senior middle school students. Although they have learnt English for several years, they still can't fully accomplish the writing task in exams. In their compositions, there are too many errors and mistakes, and they can't express themselves freely. Furthermore, because of their small vocabulary size, poor grammar knowledge, and lack of writing practice, they feel it too difficult and show no interest in writing. On the other hand, it needs a lot of time and energy to instruct and practice English writing but the English classes cannot afford so much time. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate how to teach writing effectively in middle schools.In order to solve the problems existing in our English writing teaching, we should adopt the possible measures to get rid of the students' anxiety, arouse their interest and motivation and improve their writing ability. This thesis analyzes the advantages of the process approach and the merits of product approach, integrates these two approaches and applies it to the writing teaching, in the hope of finding an effective writing teaching approach. The research hopes to find: 1) Is the new approach to teaching writing helpful in changing the students' interest, confidence, attitudes and beliefs towards writing? 2) Can writing competence, both in content and language, be enhanced through the new approach? 3) Can students of the experimental class do better than those of the control class hot only in writing compositions but also in their language competence?The thesis employs the methods of literature reviewing to get to know the problems existing in our English writing teaching and introduce the process approach...