| With the development and advancement of NCEE,Continuation Task is an important change in the reform of NCEE.Since the new type of Continuation Task appeared in NCEE of Zhejiang in 2016,Shandong,Shanghai and Hainan have confirmed to the reform trend of NCEE in recent years,breaking the traditional forms of English writing.The study is conducted to give some enlightenments for students and English teachers in senior high school to improve their Continuation Task abilities and teaching performance by applying discourse cohesion theory to Continuation Task teaching in senior high school.On the basis of the Halliday and Hasan’s discourse cohesion theory and alignment effect theory,this thesis mainly explores whether the application of discourse cohesion theory to the Continuation Task teaching in senior high school can improve the students’ cohesion abilities and Continuation Task abilities.The research takes 70 students from two classes of No.6 High school of Xiamen,in Fujian,as the research subjects,trying to apply discourse cohesion theory to Continuation Task teaching.The thesis adopts questionnaires,tests and interview to answer the following questions:（1）What is the senior high school students’ current situation of the English Continuation Task in Xiamen?（2）What is the effect of the application of cohesion theory to the English Continuation Task teaching on students’ cohesion abilities?（3）What is the effect of the application of cohesion theory to the English Continuation Task teaching on students’ Continuation Task abilities?The research results shows that although the research subjects in the two classes are at the same level on cohesion ability approximately before the experiment,the students in EC can use more discourse devices to ensure the integrity of the compositions after the experiment.It shows that the application of cohesion theory to the English Continuation Task teaching has positive effect on students’ cohesion abilities.The comparison results of EC and CC in the pre-test and the post-test demonstrates that the application of cohesion theory to the English Continuation Task teaching is helpful for students in EC to get higher scores which shows that the application of cohesion theory to the English Continuation Task teaching has positive effect on students’ Continuation Task abilities.The author proposes some enlightenments on Continuation Task teaching by analyzing the research results.At first,the English teachers in senior high school need to strengthen the study of discourse cohesion.Besides,the Continuation Task class can be arranged specially in each unit.In addition,they can guide students to pay attention to the output of writing after input of reading.However,the application of cohesion theory to the English Continuation Task teaching cannot solve all the problems in English writing teaching as well as it is only suitable for the provinces where the new NCEE is adopted.Therefore,English teachers should take the actual situation into account and make corresponding adjustments when applying it. |
