Empirical Studies Of The Impact Of Non-linguistic Factors On Rural High School Students In English Writing Ability

With the development of economy, English becomes more and more important for Chinese students. Writing, one of the four language communication skills,helping students cultivate their ability of comprehension and expression in mastering a language effectively, is of great importance as well as the most difficulty for the senior students, especially for those in rural areas. They dislike it whenever the teachers ask them to write. In the past several years, they have been very poor in writing in the entrance examination. Of course, many experts and educationalists have attached more importance to the phenomenon, conducting lots of explorations on many respects. However, the experimental studies are far lower and few focus on senior students, even less on senior students in rural areas. Meanwhile, systematical,whole and regular researches leave much to be done,specially in the non-linguistic factors.The paper tries to explore the effects of non-linguistic factors on the students' writing in rural areas. The experiment is conducted among 102 students from two different classes with different writing proficiency. Questionnaires, interviews and written products are applied in the study to analyze the statistics from the interior and exterior factors. Research shows that such non-linguistic factors as tension and anxiety,Chinese thinking pattern,teachers'feedback have greatly affected the students'English writing ability.Based on the results of the academic research, the author puts forward some corresponding and proper strategies to cultivate students' writing competence and to promote the teachers' teaching level.