Peer revision is a collaborative activity during which student writers can exchange drafts and make suggestions for improvement. It has been widely used at present in process-oriented writing instruction. In this pape...Peer revision is a collaborative activity during which student writers can exchange drafts and make suggestions for improvement. It has been widely used at present in process-oriented writing instruction. In this paper, the researcher carried out an empirical study about the effects and efficacy of peer revision on a group of Chinese Juniors majoring in English. It was found that student writers focused specially on grammar and vocabulary in PE session and organization was the least attended to. PE was quite effective in improving the overall writing quality, as the participants did incorporate most of the revisions suggested by their peers. However, the influences of students'writing proficiencies and of the rhetorical modes of the writing tasks on the effects of PE were proved to be not very significant.展开更多
Currently,English writing is still an important and challenging course for most students in English.In China,the effect of Product-oriented approaches is dominated.Such practice seems to have ignored cognitive factors...Currently,English writing is still an important and challenging course for most students in English.In China,the effect of Product-oriented approaches is dominated.Such practice seems to have ignored cognitive factors of writing process.So it is necessary to choose some new ways to perfect our English writing teaching.In this paper the application of a new approach——process-oriented approach will be discussed.By using this approach,the students can develop some behaviors such as composing,brainstorming,drafting,and revising.展开更多
The present study aimed at examining the effectiveness of the teacher's guidance to collaborative writing in non-English major class.Subjects were 150 Chinese freshmen from two natural classes which served as an e...The present study aimed at examining the effectiveness of the teacher's guidance to collaborative writing in non-English major class.Subjects were 150 Chinese freshmen from two natural classes which served as an experimental class(88 students) and a control class(62 students) at a normal college.Data of the present study was collected from two questionnaires,two CET-4 writing tests,students' written comments on collaborative writing in the post-questionnaire.Data were analyzed by SPSS(Statistics Package for Social Science) 11.5 in which CET holistic grading was used to analyze students' writing performance of pre-test,post-test.Statistic results indicated that the teacher's guidance to collaborative writing does influence students' writing performance.In addition,qualitative analysis showed that students in the two classes had their respectively positive perceptions towards collaborative writing with different guidance of the same teacher.展开更多
文摘Peer revision is a collaborative activity during which student writers can exchange drafts and make suggestions for improvement. It has been widely used at present in process-oriented writing instruction. In this paper, the researcher carried out an empirical study about the effects and efficacy of peer revision on a group of Chinese Juniors majoring in English. It was found that student writers focused specially on grammar and vocabulary in PE session and organization was the least attended to. PE was quite effective in improving the overall writing quality, as the participants did incorporate most of the revisions suggested by their peers. However, the influences of students'writing proficiencies and of the rhetorical modes of the writing tasks on the effects of PE were proved to be not very significant.
文摘Currently,English writing is still an important and challenging course for most students in English.In China,the effect of Product-oriented approaches is dominated.Such practice seems to have ignored cognitive factors of writing process.So it is necessary to choose some new ways to perfect our English writing teaching.In this paper the application of a new approach——process-oriented approach will be discussed.By using this approach,the students can develop some behaviors such as composing,brainstorming,drafting,and revising.
文摘The present study aimed at examining the effectiveness of the teacher's guidance to collaborative writing in non-English major class.Subjects were 150 Chinese freshmen from two natural classes which served as an experimental class(88 students) and a control class(62 students) at a normal college.Data of the present study was collected from two questionnaires,two CET-4 writing tests,students' written comments on collaborative writing in the post-questionnaire.Data were analyzed by SPSS(Statistics Package for Social Science) 11.5 in which CET holistic grading was used to analyze students' writing performance of pre-test,post-test.Statistic results indicated that the teacher's guidance to collaborative writing does influence students' writing performance.In addition,qualitative analysis showed that students in the two classes had their respectively positive perceptions towards collaborative writing with different guidance of the same teacher.