The Design Of Leisure Teaching Activities In Chinese Writing At The Intermediate Stage

Students ’ leisure time is their free time simply at their disposal, which is notlimited in the tasks stipulated by the curriculum in schools. It has been proventhat if the teachers combine the classroom teaching and students’ leisure time,and organize various kinds of leisure activities, they can really enhance thestudents’ interest in learning, and boost their language practical abilities.Although writing skills are as important as the other three skills: listening,speaking and reading, the students who are good at listening and speaking find itreally hard to command reading and writing when they are learning Chinese attheir intermediate stage. They tend to shrink back at the writing assignments. Atthe same time, Chinese Writing (II) is such a course rich in content, tight inarrangement, and all-round in requirement that teachers think it a tough task toimprove the students’ writing abilities. Infiltrating the writing tasks into thestudent’s leisure time, teachers organize various kinds of leisure activities so asto help the students integrate into the target language community, boost theirpractical skills in the authentic language environment, improve their learningefficiency and give them a chance to get to know Chinese history, culture andcustoms.This thesis focuses on the methods and types of leisure activities in thecourse of Chinese Writing at the intermediate stage. From the perspective ofimplementation, teachers should combine classroom teaching with the students’leisure time in an infiltrating way. When designing the leisure activities, teacherstake into account the content of the activity, teaching objectives, activityprocedure, supervision and guidance etc, so as to set up appropriate “leisureactivity list”. And then it demonstrates four main types of leisure activities:after-class reading, daily practical activities, online writing and mini survey andinterviews. By stating their implementing methods respectively, the paper triesto prove it’s an effective way to enhance students’ writing competence.Finally, under the guidance of the research mode of “theory-analysis- design”, the thesis tries to design two common leisure activities: one-day trip(by organizing the students to visit renowned scenic sport, the studentsaccumulate writing material, practice their language skills, and learn team-workspirits as so to lay a solid foundation for in-depth writing) and a mini-survey (byorganizing the students to carry out a mini social survey, the students canimprove their practical skills in full swing, have a chance to better engage intarget language society and work together to complete a whole task so as tostimulate their enthusiasm for Chinese writing.)...