A Study Of The Cohesive Devices Employed In Junior High School Students’ English Writings

During the past thirty years, people have given increasing interest to the application of cohesion theory. In China, some teachers have been aware of the importance of teaching cohesive devices in writings class. Many theoretical researches have been made to explore the strategies to improve junior middle school students’ use of cohesive devices. However, the outcome is still very poor. Thus, the thesis aims to find out the current situation in the teaching of cohesive devices in junior middle school and explore the way to improve the situation.Firstly, through stating the researches on the relationship between the use of cohesive devices and the quality of students’ writings, the author claims that the use of cohesive devices correlates with the quality of students’ writings so as to prove that the use of cohesive devices plays an important role in composing high-quality writings.Secondly, the thesis introduces and analyzes the teaching of cohesive devices in Shenyang Normal University Affiliated School. The author makes two questionnaires separately for teachers and students. Through the questionnaires, the author gets a brief knowledge of the current situation of English writings teaching in junior high school. According to the data collected from the questionnaires, the author gives advices to improve the current situation. In the author’s opinion, input and output are two important factors to promote students’ writings ability. It requires a huge effort to figure out a suitable method to enhance students’ interest in English writings.In the end, limitations are mentioned in the final part. In the meanwhile, suggestions are also provided especially for teachers. The author holds the opinion that teachers are supposed to cultivate students’ awareness of using cohesive devices during writings and to explore suitable teaching method to facilitate students’ improvement.