“题材”和“体裁”的差异与英语专业写作教学

The Distinction of "Text Type" and "Genre" and the Writing Instructions of English Majors

英语写作作为重要的产出技能和交际技能始终是英语专业教学与研究的焦点。通过问卷调查了英语专业写作教学的总体状况,发现成果教学法和过程教学法在目前国内英语专业写作教学中长期居垄断地位,英语专业写作教学出现体裁缺失的现象。虽然体裁教学法还处在探索阶段,但其无可比拟的优越性能有效地培养和提高学生的写作能力,同时对英语专业写作教学具有极大的启示作用。

English writing skill has always been the center of teaching and research as one of the important output skills and communicative skills.Based on the questionnaire of 418 English major students,the results show that the product and process approaches are still dominant in the current writing instructions for English majors with the complete absence of 'genre'.Though genre approach needs further justification,the strong points of it will effectively help improve learners' writing skill and shed pedagogical light on the writing instructions as well.