Output High School English Writing Teaching

The ultimate aim of English teaching in middle schools is to cultivate the students' ability of communication, and writing is the main part of it. Writing, considered to be a productive practice, embodies students' comprehensive ability to use English. English writing in senior high schools, however, has witnessed the fact that input overweighs output. As the result, both teachers and students suffer a great deal from more investment but less reward, and this inefficiency has a great impact on the open policy and economic development of our country, which calls for a large number of intellectuals, majoring in English.Based on the present situation and the request of the new English curriculum standards for English writing in senior high schools, the author of the essay lays stress on the discussion on the improvement of English writing under the guidance of the theory of output hypothesis, and puts into practice in senior three the new teaching method combining process writing with length writing.In the essay, the author, first of all, states the final aim of English teaching and the importance of cultivating students' ability of writing in senior high schools, and then analyzes the present English teaching according to the investigation and questionnaires of students' writing and then the author thinks that the present teaching of English writing needs improvement and that the theory of output hypothesis should be taken into consideration in guiding the teaching of English writing in senior high schools.In the next step, the author of the essay summarizes the theory of output hypothesis, and explains the functions of output, along with it the introduction of output embodied in the new curriculum, which makes us have a reflection on the fact that input and output are of the same importance, and therefore, we should form the concept of the change of the roles of teachers and students, and improve the traditional teaching model.Following the above, the author gives the description of the use of the theory of output hypothesis in senior high schools, and under the guidance of the theory, we should integrate process approach with length approach in English writing. And the author also puts forward six principles that should be abided by. In this section, the author proves the feasibility and validity of the new teaching method of English writing by the experimental researches.Towards the end of the essay, the author shows us the idea that the theory of output hypothesis can guide the writing teaching in middle schools and points out that careful design of the task is critical in English writing.