Application Of Lexical Chunks In English Writing Teaching In Senior High Schools

Recently, theories of lexical chunks have been adopted as a new pedagogical perspective into research of language teaching. Lexical chunks as the minimal unit of language input, memory, storage and output, possess both lexical and grammatical characters.They can be stored in human’s memory system as a unified whole and be retrieved directly when necessary. The application of lexical chunks into second language writing can effectively ease learners’ pressure in time-limited writing, and help them overcome negative transfer from their first language. In this way, it also can increase language processing efficiency and finally raise learners’ proficiency of writing more fluent, accurate and native-like compositions.In the experiment, the researcher adopts the teaching of lexical chunks into writing process. By helping the learners to identify, internalize and accumulate writing-related lexical chunks in the textbook, the author try to build an effective channel between the language input and output. Therefore, the research aims to find that whether applying lexical chunks is a feasible and effective way for English writing teaching in senior high schools. This general aim is specified as the following two research questions: Does the application of lexical chunks improve students’ writing proficiency and stimulate students’ interest in English writing and enhance their confidence?...