INTEGRATION OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE WRITING AND PROCESS WRITING APPROACHES IN TEACHING EFL WRITING

This paper adopts a pedagogical approach to theteaching of English writing to EFL learners of interme-diate or advanced level in China.The teaching ofwriting has been a problem to Chinese EFL teachers fora long time.On the one hand,they want to make anattempt to adopt fashionable and effective Englishwriting approaches,like process writing.On the otherhand,they are frustrated by the traditional Chinesewriting method.Some of our language educators arealways struggling against the influence of our tradi-tional Chinese writing method.A negative attitudetowards our mother tongue writing approach has beenestablished or accepted by most of our EFL teachers,which result in the EFL learners’panic in their Eng-lish writing course because they are afraid of being ac-cused of writing a Chinese composition in Englishwords.Needless to say,this kind of teaching stylecannot be effective and is frustrating instead.The au-thor presents an integrated and practical solution tothis problem and discusses the applicability of the ap-proach.The author discusses how we can effectivelyintegrate the traditional Chinese writing method andthe popular process writing approach in teaching Eng-lish writing.

An Integrated Approach to the Teaching of English Writing

English writing, as a basic language skill for second language learners, is being paid close attention to. How to achieve better results in English teaching and how to develop students＇ writing competence remain an arduous task for English teachers. This paper introduces three writing approaches that are currently popular in English writing teaching field, i.e., the product approach, the process approach and the genre approach, and offers some discussion on the three approaches each approach shows its strengths and weaknesses, but meanwhile they are largely complementary. Then this paper attempts to propose an integrated approach which is not only a synthesis of the above three approaches, but also draws on some experiences of traditional Chinese language teaching methods.

Principles in Teaching Process Writing in a Learner-centered Classroom

English writing is always a headache for both learners and teachers in ESL class. In this paper I will make an in-depth investigation of teaching writing in a Chinese ESL classroom based on my teaching experience as well as some literature review, and then propose some feasible measures constructed on the learner-centered principles and approaches, with the hope that they might help to bring along better results in my future teaching attempts.

THE PROCESS APPROACH TO WRITING

IntroductionIn China.the method for teaching writing for science students is always regarded as most difficult.Howto teach writing and to comment on or mark students’writing are frequently discussed topics.In thispaper.I will report on what I have done in my writing class.Process ApproachThe‘process approach’to writing is not a new approach:it has been around since the early 1970s.It isalso called a‘multiple drafts process’and consists of generating ideas(pre-writing/input):writing a firstdraft with an emphasis on content(to‘discover’meaning/author’s ideas):writing second and third(andpossibly more)drafts to revise ideas and ways to communicate of these ideas.