| In the field of second language writing,voice refers to the comprehensive effect of people’s conscious or unconscious use of various existing and constantly changing linguistic and non-linguistic means in society.Voice in writing has been proved to be an important factor influencing writing performance,which is highly valued in teaching second language writing.However,domestic researchers pay less attention to the research of voice.Based on this,the experiment was aimed to enrich the research perspective of the voice of second language writing in China by teaching the voice of second language writing in the local context.The purpose of this thesis was to explore the changes in the voice intensity of non-English majors’ argumentative writing under genre-based teaching,and to answer the following three questions: 1.What is the impact of genre-based teaching approach on grades of second language writing? 2.What is the impact of genre-based teaching approach on the overall voice intensity of second language writing? 3.What are the impacts of genre-based teaching approach on the ideational dimension,the affective dimension,and the presence dimension respectively?Participants of this research were from two sophomore classes of a university,including 45 students in the experimental group and 44 students in the control group.The frequency of teaching intervention was every three weeks,and a total of four teaching interventions were conducted in 12 teaching weeks.During the whole experiment,the experimental group adopted genre-based teaching approach of systemic-functional language school,and the teaching procedures were divided into three stages: modelling,joint negotiation of text and independent construction of text.The control group continued to conduct the product approach in the writing instruction.Pre-test and post-test were administered in both groups and SPSS 23.0was used for the comparative analysis of the two groups in the pre-test and post-test and the comparative analysis of the two groups separately.Semi-structured interviews were also conducted to elicit participants’ opinions about voice in writing.The results were as follows:1.There was a significant difference in grades between the experimental group and the control group.Besides,the intra-group analysis showed that the grades of both the experimental group and the control group presented statistically significant differences between the pre-test and the post-test.In addition,the grade of the experimental group was significantly improved than that of the control group.2.There was a significant difference in the overall voice intensity between the experimental group and the control group.Besides,the intra-group analysis showed that the overall voice intensity of the experimental group and the control group manifested statistically significant differences.In addition,frequencies of each linguistic element co-constructing voice increased significantly in the experimental group,while frequencies of linguistic elements of voice increased or decreased slightly in the control group.3.There were significant differences in voice intensity of three dimensions between the experimental group and the control group.Besides,the intra-group analysis showed that the voice intensity of the experimental group and the control group demonstrated statistically significant differences in the three dimensions.However,the voice intensity in each dimension of the experimental group was significantly higher than that in the control group.Among them,the improvement of voice intensity of the experimental group in the affective dimension was significantly higher than that of the control group.Moreover,semi-structured interview data indicated that students had a positive attitude towards genre-based teaching approach.In this study,voice teaching of second language writing was conducted through genre-based teaching approach,which effectively improved writing performance and dialogic awareness of second language learners.The study provided implications for voice teaching of second language writing in China. |
