Research Concerning The Effects Of Integration Of Reading And Writing Approach On Junior High School Students' English Writing Scores And English Writing Anxiety

In the era of information and economic globalization,English is playing an increasingly important role as a communication tool and a major information carrier.According to the English curriculum standards for compulsory education,the English curriculum is designed to enable students to master basic language knowledge,listening,speaking,reading and writing skills,so as to be able to use the language correctly and fluently.In the current English teaching in junior high school,reading and writing are often taught separately.Reading occupies the main position of English teaching,and attaches much importance to vocabulary and grammar.On the contrary,writing is a relatively weak part of English teaching,and it is also the last part that students and teachers are willing to face.Writing teaching is often neglected,and most teachers train students'writing skill through examinations instead of doing more practice.Moreover,students are also prone to anxiety in the process of writing.Therefore,it is extremely urgent to explore effective writing teaching methods to improve students'writing ability.According to the input and output theories of Krashen and Swain,reading and writing can promote each other in second language learning,and the two are inseparable.Many scholars at home and abroad also realized the effectiveness of the integration of reading and writing,and launched a series of related studies.This thesis attempts to explore the influence of the combination of reading and writing on junior high school students' English writing performance and writing anxiety through empirical research,so as to provide an effective method for English writing teaching.In this study,student participants were 97 eight-grade students enrolled in a Middle school in Xi'an.These students were from two intact classes with similar English proficiency.One class was experimental group with 48 students involved,another class was control group with 49 students.Quantitative research and qualitative research coexist.Quantitative researches include test and scale,and the qualitative research involves interview.In the process of the experiment,the author collected the writing scores and scale scores of students in two classes,and also chose ten students in the experimental class for interview.After data collection,the independent sample t-test and paired sample t-test were used to examine significant differences with SPSS 17.0.In addition,the author adopted NVivo 10 to analyze qualitative data and try to figure out supportive reasons for the quantitative results.The results of this study can prove that integration of reading and writing approach is an effective way to improve students' English writing performance and reduce their writing anxiety to some degree.The main findings are concluded as following:1.the results of quantitative research show that students'writing scores significantly improve in the experiment class across the whole semester,while students in the control condition doesn't exhibit the growth.Therefore,integration of reading and writing approach is a better way to teach writing than traditional teaching method.According to the interview,integration of reading and writing improve students' English writing performance in three aspects:improvement of organization,improvement of language use as well as improvement of thinking way.2.The quantitative results present that there is significant differences in English writing anxiety in post-test between the control class and the experimental class.Specifically speaking,in independent sample t-test,students' writing anxiety has been relieved a lot in the experimental group,especially in somatic anxiety.Moreover,in accordance with the results of paired sample test,the reduction of students' writing anxiety demonstrates in two aspects:somatic anxiety and cognitive anxiety.while students in control group have no dramatic changes in writing anxiety.According to the interview,integration of reading and writing approach increases students'confidence and expression ability.3.Students also provides some Suggestions on integration of reading and writing approach,including more diverse writing tasks,more information about the text and more time for discussion.