High School English Written Expression Of The Error Analysis And Countermeasures

As an important norm to judge the students' overall ability in English language learning and using, English writing is the most difficult to master among the four skills. It plays a very important role in the NEMT English test, let alone its importance in our daily life. But the current situation of English writing in Senior High School is urgent. Aimed to change the current situation and discover the factors that hinder students' improvement in writing, this paper tries to explore error sources in the English compositions by Senior Three students from a key middle school by collecting errors, identifying errors and focusing more on explaining errors and evaluating errors. Findings are that vocabulary errors, especially errors of verbs account for the major part of the errors in all; students also make a lot of errors in word spelling; Local Errors exceed Global errors in number and students who major in physics and chemistry make fewer errors than those in biology and history. Through analysis, the author finds that students' errors are mainly due to language interference: Local Errors are closely related to the target language interference, while mother tongue interference causes more Global Errors. Teachers' improper methods of teaching also contribute to students' errors.According to the findings, some pedagogic suggestions, are made by the author, such as the right strategies for error-correction and the proper teaching methods. English teachers should employ proper methods to improve the students' writing ability. It is necessary for them to view writing practice as one important part of the whole teaching plan. They should pay more attention to providing the students' with authentic input by combining listening, speaking, reading ,writing as a whole in English teaching, thus developing the students' ability to think in English. Besides, they should direct students to use some effective writing strategies in English writing and provide them with more chances to practice writing. Students, of course, as active learners, should be aware of their errors and in strong attempts to self-correct their errors and develop their self-study abilities. They should be active in writing more with fewer errors or even no errors. Only in this way can they really lay a solid foundation for their further English study.