The Exploration Of English Writing Teaching In Senior School

Writing is an extremely complex intellectual process. In China, writing is always a weak aspect of English teaching. Although our scholars and many English teachers racked their brains in it, the effect is still not obvious and the students' writing has never reached the satisfactory result. Therefore, it is necessary to do some research on how to improve the students' writing ability.In traditional English reading classes, the relationship between reading and writing has been neglected. Therefore, the teaching work produces very little effect. This thesis first makes a historical review of teaching reading-writing at home and abroad. And it then studies and summarizes the newest study achievements about the English writing teaching for years at home and abroad and the relationship between reading and writing based on Krashen's Comprehensible Input Hypothesis and Swain's Comprehensible Output Hypothesis. Next it boldly advances the integrating teaching of reading-writing in order to finally promote students' English writing level, combining the present situation of middle school English writing with the theory.In order to verify the effect of this approach, the author carried out the experiment study in two classes of Yichang Jindongfang Senior Middle School. One was established to be the Experimental Class and adopted the integrating teaching of reading-writing to carry out writing teaching; the other was established to be the Control Class and adopted the traditional teaching methods of reading and writing to carry out writing teaching.The experimental results reported in this paper show that the English writing scores of the students from the Experimental Class have been improved more obviously than that from the Control Class, and the scores of the students from the Experimental Class after the experiment have been improved more quickly than that from the Control Class because of adopting the new writing teaching approach, compared with the scores before the experiment.Then, the results of the experiment have been summarized and analyzed from the words spelling, collocation, grammar, sentence construction and coherence etc. Generally speaking, students from the Experimental Class have made more obvious progress in the collocation, grammar and sentence pattern than in other fields. About the variety of the vocabulary using, the sentence structure, and about the coherence, the students from the Experimental Class have been all far better than the Control Class.Finally, the discussion on the experimental results is carried out, and the implications on the English writing teaching from the discussion include the following points.First, combine reading activities with writing practice reasonably in English classes. Second, the reading methods directly affect the level of English writing. In the normal teaching of reading, the English teachers should help their students to grasp some reading methods and know some basic factors and characteristics of reading so as to improve the students'ability of building passage structure.Third, the vocabulary is the foundation of writing a piece of excellent writing. Therefore, when teaching reading materials, we should extend its other meaning of the words, such as affective meaning, associative meaning, collocative meaning based on the conceptual meaning of the vocabularies, etc. And besides the existing vocabularies, we should enlarge their synonyms and antonyms. In the course of teaching reading, we should help our students to understand and learn new words and phrases. About cultivating students in choosing diversified words and using genuine words, in the normal teaching, English teachers should not only help their students to acquire the message of the reading materials, but also ask them, from the side of the semantic field, to select the words, the phrases and the expressions which express the same concept from the reading materials and classify them.Fourth, writing lively and genuine sentences, whose sentences patterns and structures are various, depends on learning by heart in reading and mechanical imitation in writing in some degree.Fifth, the coherence is an important factor in writing an excellent article. In the normal teaching, English teachers should encourage their students to properly use some different conjunctions within the same meaning field so as to strengthen the coherence of the article.Sixth, the grammar rule is another necessary basic essential of the English writing. In the course of teaching, English teachers should sum up the types and causes of the grammar mistakes from students' writings, then give them explanation through classification, and strengthen training so as to reduce the grammar mistakes and improve students' writing ability.