| The students in secondary vocational school are not good at English writing. Although the English teachers have made great efforts to improve the students'writing competence, the situation didn't change. The precondition of language output is language input. Without input, output is like water without a source. In order to change student's writing situation, therefore, the first step is to reform English reading teaching. Based on input hypothesis and the studies made in such a field previously, two ideas for improvement have been proposed in the thesis. They are (1) improving the quality and quantity of reading; (2) combining reading activities with writing activities. English writing can be improved through reading instruction reform.To begin with, the author recognizes the main problems in the students'writing through error analysis, questionnaire survey and interview. The main problems in the students' writing are 1) lack of learning interest and initiative; 2) without good learning habits; 3) limited learning strategies. After that, the author gives some suggestion for improving reading teaching:1)combining emotional cultivation with cognitive improvement; 2) combining discourse with phrases; 3) combining reading with writing; 4) combining knowledge teaching with skill practice; 5) highlight the difference between Chinese culture and English-speaking country culture.Following the above, the author puts forward eight principles that should be abided by under the guidance of Language Input Hypothesis. They are gradual principle; layer teaching principle; combining extensive reading with intensive reading principle; giving consideration to both the discourse and phrases principle; emphasis on the transformation from input to intake principle; combining input with output principle; timely feedback principle and autonomous learning principle.Based on these eight principles, the author comes up with a new reading teaching model. The author proves the feasibility and validity of the new teaching method of English reading by the experimental researches. The new English writing teaching model not only can improve the students' English writing level, but also can improve the length of composition, enlarge the number of effective words, increase the quantity of relating sentences and perfect the content of the composition.Towards the end of the essay, the experimental results demonstrates that the theory of Input Hypothesis can guide the English teaching in the secondary vocational schools and points out that turning receptive knowledge and ability into productive knowledge and ability is critical in English reading. |
