The Use Of Social Software To Enhance The Practice Of Students’ Writing Skills

Abstract:In Sichuan Province, under the new curriculum background, this paper use social software to enhance the writing skills of high school students in language studies carried out in practice.With social software, changes in the concept of improving writing-teaching, methods and tools for writing have tremendously taken place. Social software tools optimize the student’s writing, change the way of learning writing, improve environment for writing."High school essay teaching and information technology integration" has become a hot topic.But when reading newspapers and magazines and searching the network resources, we can easily find the mode of teaching writing to discuss the reform of higher education and examples also common, while the effect of extra-curricular writing training design and evaluation of is less. At the same time, limited to one or two classes of "intensive teaching", it lacks of systematic training, writing, interactive. Moreover, most of the literature of "modern education techniques and curriculum integration" problems are the main use of one or two social softwares such as QQ, BLOG, limited to a single form.Writing instruction, classroom speaking and training are just tips of the iceberg, language and life extension and improving writing skills should be focused on extra-curricular writing training. The practice seeks to break through "in the traditional classroom, teaching writing using one or several social software to complete some of the limitations of manual tasks." Modern language curriculum as a guide, exploring the city’s provincial model high teaching writing to actively build and adapt to the new curriculum in Sichuan teaching writing, teaching process, teaching writing developed network resources, the establishment of developmental evaluation system to improve students’writing and information literacy, cultural awareness, thus contributing to the overall development of students, lay a solid foundation for lifelong learning. As the author is a front-line teachers on the subject of the study, the main use of action research methods, combined with literature research, questionnaires, experiments, teaching methods and means.First, the students access to the Internet, the information literacy conducted extensive research, and invited teachers in information technology courses to students on social software to do a series of lectures to supplement the knowledge and skills. Then, as the central theme of writing, carry out extra-curricular activities. Activities include data collection, sharing, creating, evaluating, modifying summary archive. Achieved the following results:Proposed the use of social software for the design of the teaching of writing; summarizes the use of social software for teaching writing and general aspects of the main forms; the formation of an effective network environment, information technology and curriculum integration of teaching writing; and on the use of social software is easy to guide students in extra-curricular writing problems, summarized and reflection, to better carry out these extra-curricular writing training practice with a certain reference value.