The purpose of this study is to examine the current situation of English writing autonomy and literacy among Chinese college students,to analyze their performance,scale,and distribution as well as influencing factors,...The purpose of this study is to examine the current situation of English writing autonomy and literacy among Chinese college students,to analyze their performance,scale,and distribution as well as influencing factors,and to explore the correlation between English writing autonomy and literacy.This study will provide an in-depth analysis of the current situation of Chinese college students’English writing autonomy and literacy,reveal the scale,distribution,and influencing factors,as well as put forward strategies to enhance them,so as to provide a reference for the reform and development of college English education.展开更多
This study,drawing on the commonalities between generative artificial intelligence and foreign language writing instruction,outlines the core ideology of digital humanities-based college English writing instruction,in...This study,drawing on the commonalities between generative artificial intelligence and foreign language writing instruction,outlines the core ideology of digital humanities-based college English writing instruction,including auxiliary use of generative artificial intelligence tools,primary focus on humanistic education,and the re-production of knowledge,aiming to foster students’critical thinking,collaborative skills,and creativity.Building on this foundation,the study delves into generative artificial intelligence tools applicable to different stages of process-genre writing and their strategic applications.The use of generative artificial intelligence tools is beneficial for students to present,discuss,and share writing content,encouraging them to enhance their writing,collaboration,critical thinking,and creative abilities through deep interaction with model essays and creative discourses.展开更多
This study investigates the avoidance of relative clauses by high vocational college students and also explores the differences in the avoidance of the RCs by high-level students and low-level students in their Englis...This study investigates the avoidance of relative clauses by high vocational college students and also explores the differences in the avoidance of the RCs by high-level students and low-level students in their English writings. The data used in this study have been collected from English writing tasks and analyzed by Statistical Package for Social Sciences(SPSS17.0). The major findings of this study are stated as follows: 1) There are significant differences in the production of the relative clauses in their English writings by Chinese higher vocational college students and English native speakers. Avoidance of relative clauses exists in the English writings of higher vocational college students. 2) High-level Chinese higher vocational college students display less of the avoidance phenomenon in their English writings than low-level students.展开更多
This paper is designed to explore whether the theory of text linguistics,especially the knowledge of cohesion,coherence and cohesive devices could be applied in college English writing teaching to help improve student...This paper is designed to explore whether the theory of text linguistics,especially the knowledge of cohesion,coherence and cohesive devices could be applied in college English writing teaching to help improve students’writing abilities.Besides,the author puts forward some suggestions for both English teachers and learners.展开更多
The study constructed a multi-dimensional feedback mode integrating teacher feedback, peer feedback and network feedback, and applied it in the teaching of College English Writing. After 16 weeks of teaching, the stud...The study constructed a multi-dimensional feedback mode integrating teacher feedback, peer feedback and network feedback, and applied it in the teaching of College English Writing. After 16 weeks of teaching, the students in the multi-dimen-sional feedback class had significantly better overall writing scores than those in the teacher-feedback class. In terms of individual scores, multi-dimensional feedback played a better role in improving vocabulary and grammar than the class using teacher feed-back. However, there were no significant differences in the responses of writing tasks, coherence and cohesion. The study showed that most students were satisfied with the mode, believing that it was helpful to relieve writing anxiety, stimulate writing interest and improve their writing level.展开更多
English Teaching in higher vocational colleges emphasizes the principle of "practical use and adequate sufficiency". English courses should not only lay a good foundation for language, but also pay more atte...English Teaching in higher vocational colleges emphasizes the principle of "practical use and adequate sufficiency". English courses should not only lay a good foundation for language, but also pay more attention to the training of practical language skills, especially the ability to use English to deal with daily and foreign business activities. Higher vocational college students who are relatively weak in their basic English writing are particularly prominent,far from the regulated requirements. Because of the poor basic learning ability of higher vocational college students, it is very important for teachers to supervise and get feedback. But the ratio of students to English teachers in some higher vocational colleges has reached 130 : 1, so it is becoming more and more important for teachers to adopt computer aided correction composition system.展开更多
Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, ...Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, most of students don't know how to give feedbacks and what feedbacks should be given. Therefore, some strategies should be used to help students to make more effective feedbacks and stimulate students' interest to actively learn from their peers.展开更多
Writing correct sentence conforming to local English expression is the foundation of English writing. Therefore,in order to help to improve artistic college students' level of English writing,this thesis will try ...Writing correct sentence conforming to local English expression is the foundation of English writing. Therefore,in order to help to improve artistic college students' level of English writing,this thesis will try to analyze several syntactic ambiguity phenomena by means of citing typical compositions written by my students who come from different departments of the college of arts.展开更多
The previous studies show that the major problems faced by the students in writing can be classified into two categories, that is, they don't know"what to write"and"how to write". The researche...The previous studies show that the major problems faced by the students in writing can be classified into two categories, that is, they don't know"what to write"and"how to write". The researchers found that the specific problems existing in their writings are identified as poor content, incomplete generic structure and misuse of cohesive devices. Therefore, on the basis of the previous studies, this study attempts to use Martin's genre theory to resolve the existed problems of the Professional College English major's students in writing and enhance students' discourse writing ability. Meanwhile, this study tries to answer the following questions:(1) Compared with the traditional writing teaching methods, whether the genre-based writing method has a significant effect to improve students' writing skills;(2) Whether the genre-based writing method is possible to increase students' interest in writing. The experimental result and the questionnaire show that genre-based approach in ESL writing teaching really can improve students' writing achievement and enhance students' interest in English writing.展开更多
Writing is an integrated task which can test language learners’ability towards vocabulary,grammar,syntax,etc,and is therefore favored by many examinations both at home and abroad.However,Chinese students tend to perf...Writing is an integrated task which can test language learners’ability towards vocabulary,grammar,syntax,etc,and is therefore favored by many examinations both at home and abroad.However,Chinese students tend to perform poorly in English writing.The paper randomly chooses 30 compositions from sophomores from a Beijing university and picks out the syntactic errors,which can hardly be corrected merely by reference books and is therefore of great value.These errors are classified into eight types and the reasons are put forward in order for students to avoid them in future studies.展开更多
Lexical chunks,as one of the most important units with the feature of both grammar and vocabulary in a language use,as the smallest unit of language input,memory,storage and output,has a very broad application prospec...Lexical chunks,as one of the most important units with the feature of both grammar and vocabulary in a language use,as the smallest unit of language input,memory,storage and output,has a very broad application prospect in teaching college English writing.Lexical chunk is semi-refined language,which can be used as a whole stored in the memory,and can be extracted directly in use.Lexical chunks can effectively improve processing efficiency of the language resource information,alleviate learners ' timed writing pressure,overcome the influence of negative transfer of native language,to improve the students' writing fluency,accuracy and vitality.展开更多
In recent years,more and more students relay on universal composition templates.Students believe that the"universal composition template"can cope with all kinds of English tests.How the pros and cons of writ...In recent years,more and more students relay on universal composition templates.Students believe that the"universal composition template"can cope with all kinds of English tests.How the pros and cons of writing methods seem to put things right once and for all?How’s enlightening significance to English teaching?In this paper,based on the two language acquisition theory and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the composition template,some suggestion are given to the students to improve their English writing level.展开更多
English writing is the college students’synthetical application about the knowledge of English.English writing,however,is the weak segment of the college students'English learning all the time.Based on the resear...English writing is the college students’synthetical application about the knowledge of English.English writing,however,is the weak segment of the college students'English learning all the time.Based on the researches home and abroad,the paper makes an implicational study on interlanguage fossilization in English writing of Chinese college students.Though probing the causes of fossilization in English writing,the paper proposes some measures to reduce the fossilization.In the chapter one,the paper introduces simply the interlanguage fossilization.In the chapter two,the paper analyzes college students English writing and get the causal factors of fossilization:unfavorite learning motivation of students,ineffective feedback to errors,interference of the mother tongue.Then,at the last chapter,the paper put up some measures to overcome and avoid the fossilization in college students'English writing:promoting students'motivation,providing right feedback,avoiding mother tongue interference.展开更多
How to cultivate college students' ability to output their thoughts in writing accurately, fluently and efficiently deserves a higher priority in College English teaching. This paper carries out an experimental study...How to cultivate college students' ability to output their thoughts in writing accurately, fluently and efficiently deserves a higher priority in College English teaching. This paper carries out an experimental study to explore the effectiveness of facilitating college students' writing proficiency by incorporating the lexical approach into College English lessons, and thereby propose its pedagogical implications.展开更多
We focused on the e-assessment in college English writing issue from an online assessment tool perspective. Different from previous inquiries, this research addressed the importance of e-assessment in the study of col...We focused on the e-assessment in college English writing issue from an online assessment tool perspective. Different from previous inquiries, this research addressed the importance of e-assessment in the study of college English writing. In particular, we aim to examine the importance of the e-assessment. We start with a brief introduction of e-assessment. An additional discussion of the use of e-assessment is also provided. We end the study with the conclusion that e-assessment plays an important role in college English writing. We identify in our study that the forms and the effectiveness of assessment in writhing have direct effect on learners' understanding of the curriculum of college English writing and determine their capacity to make advances in college English writing. As a result, we can propose that e-assessment plays a critical role in the learning experience in college English writing.展开更多
The teaching process of English writing in the colleges can be carried out with more effective and innovative approaches in the network milieu,and the concept of collaborative learning can also become the basic teachi...The teaching process of English writing in the colleges can be carried out with more effective and innovative approaches in the network milieu,and the concept of collaborative learning can also become the basic teaching philosophy of English writing.The teaching conditions of English writing in some colleges and universities were analyzed.In general,the overall teaching conditions suffer from many deficiencies,which become the aspects for developing English writing teaching activities based on collaborative learning in the network milieu.Achieving the teaching outcomes of either collaborative English writing or English writing on the basis of collaborative learning is not easy.This paper will analyze the difficulty of college English writing teaching based on collaborative learning in the network milieu,and put forward specific suggestions for teaching.展开更多
Writing is one of the difficulties in English teaching,and it is a measure of students’mastery of English words,words and sentences.However,students generally find English writing difficult.Therefore,cultivating stud...Writing is one of the difficulties in English teaching,and it is a measure of students’mastery of English words,words and sentences.However,students generally find English writing difficult.Therefore,cultivating students’English writing ability is an important topic in current English teaching.There are various ways of cultivating writing ability,which can be summed up as follows:leading students to learn by themselves,cultivating students’ability to apply knowledge comprehensively,improving teachers’classroom language artistry,and emphasizing students’hard work in basic skills.展开更多
Considering the importance of my country’s economic structure and cultivating extroverted talents,it is necessary to improve the level of English writing in college English writing teaching,life,and work.There are st...Considering the importance of my country’s economic structure and cultivating extroverted talents,it is necessary to improve the level of English writing in college English writing teaching,life,and work.There are still some sudden problems in teaching.In order to improve the English writing level of large-character students,we must work hard to solve the outstanding problems in English writing teaching,so as to improve the accuracy of college English writing.展开更多
The reform of college English should focus on the ways to improve the practicing ability. This ability should be based on the improvement of students, which is the fundamental aim of reform on the college English. In ...The reform of college English should focus on the ways to improve the practicing ability. This ability should be based on the improvement of students, which is the fundamental aim of reform on the college English. In order to cope with this problem, "flipped classroom"has many advantages. By Giving definitions to the "flipped classroom", this dissertation analyzed the differences between the regular class and the "flipped classroom" and carried out a new way to improve the reading and writing course: we can take advantage of multimedia and new internet technology.展开更多
One major objective in the teaching of college English writing is to help students master basic language skills, in the hope that students will finally learn to write passably well in English. In keeping with the conc...One major objective in the teaching of college English writing is to help students master basic language skills, in the hope that students will finally learn to write passably well in English. In keeping with the concept that a language is a huge system, a cognitive approach to college English writing aims at the link and association of various language elements to help to inspire the formation of the linguistic instinct on the part of the students Based on the practical teaching practice, ways are recommended to coordinate various elements of a sentence, including "vowel spectrum", "sentence analyzing spectrum", and "focus in context"展开更多
文摘The purpose of this study is to examine the current situation of English writing autonomy and literacy among Chinese college students,to analyze their performance,scale,and distribution as well as influencing factors,and to explore the correlation between English writing autonomy and literacy.This study will provide an in-depth analysis of the current situation of Chinese college students’English writing autonomy and literacy,reveal the scale,distribution,and influencing factors,as well as put forward strategies to enhance them,so as to provide a reference for the reform and development of college English education.
文摘This study,drawing on the commonalities between generative artificial intelligence and foreign language writing instruction,outlines the core ideology of digital humanities-based college English writing instruction,including auxiliary use of generative artificial intelligence tools,primary focus on humanistic education,and the re-production of knowledge,aiming to foster students’critical thinking,collaborative skills,and creativity.Building on this foundation,the study delves into generative artificial intelligence tools applicable to different stages of process-genre writing and their strategic applications.The use of generative artificial intelligence tools is beneficial for students to present,discuss,and share writing content,encouraging them to enhance their writing,collaboration,critical thinking,and creative abilities through deep interaction with model essays and creative discourses.
文摘This study investigates the avoidance of relative clauses by high vocational college students and also explores the differences in the avoidance of the RCs by high-level students and low-level students in their English writings. The data used in this study have been collected from English writing tasks and analyzed by Statistical Package for Social Sciences(SPSS17.0). The major findings of this study are stated as follows: 1) There are significant differences in the production of the relative clauses in their English writings by Chinese higher vocational college students and English native speakers. Avoidance of relative clauses exists in the English writings of higher vocational college students. 2) High-level Chinese higher vocational college students display less of the avoidance phenomenon in their English writings than low-level students.
文摘This paper is designed to explore whether the theory of text linguistics,especially the knowledge of cohesion,coherence and cohesive devices could be applied in college English writing teaching to help improve students’writing abilities.Besides,the author puts forward some suggestions for both English teachers and learners.
文摘The study constructed a multi-dimensional feedback mode integrating teacher feedback, peer feedback and network feedback, and applied it in the teaching of College English Writing. After 16 weeks of teaching, the students in the multi-dimen-sional feedback class had significantly better overall writing scores than those in the teacher-feedback class. In terms of individual scores, multi-dimensional feedback played a better role in improving vocabulary and grammar than the class using teacher feed-back. However, there were no significant differences in the responses of writing tasks, coherence and cohesion. The study showed that most students were satisfied with the mode, believing that it was helpful to relieve writing anxiety, stimulate writing interest and improve their writing level.
文摘English Teaching in higher vocational colleges emphasizes the principle of "practical use and adequate sufficiency". English courses should not only lay a good foundation for language, but also pay more attention to the training of practical language skills, especially the ability to use English to deal with daily and foreign business activities. Higher vocational college students who are relatively weak in their basic English writing are particularly prominent,far from the regulated requirements. Because of the poor basic learning ability of higher vocational college students, it is very important for teachers to supervise and get feedback. But the ratio of students to English teachers in some higher vocational colleges has reached 130 : 1, so it is becoming more and more important for teachers to adopt computer aided correction composition system.
文摘Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, most of students don't know how to give feedbacks and what feedbacks should be given. Therefore, some strategies should be used to help students to make more effective feedbacks and stimulate students' interest to actively learn from their peers.
文摘Writing correct sentence conforming to local English expression is the foundation of English writing. Therefore,in order to help to improve artistic college students' level of English writing,this thesis will try to analyze several syntactic ambiguity phenomena by means of citing typical compositions written by my students who come from different departments of the college of arts.
文摘The previous studies show that the major problems faced by the students in writing can be classified into two categories, that is, they don't know"what to write"and"how to write". The researchers found that the specific problems existing in their writings are identified as poor content, incomplete generic structure and misuse of cohesive devices. Therefore, on the basis of the previous studies, this study attempts to use Martin's genre theory to resolve the existed problems of the Professional College English major's students in writing and enhance students' discourse writing ability. Meanwhile, this study tries to answer the following questions:(1) Compared with the traditional writing teaching methods, whether the genre-based writing method has a significant effect to improve students' writing skills;(2) Whether the genre-based writing method is possible to increase students' interest in writing. The experimental result and the questionnaire show that genre-based approach in ESL writing teaching really can improve students' writing achievement and enhance students' interest in English writing.
文摘Writing is an integrated task which can test language learners’ability towards vocabulary,grammar,syntax,etc,and is therefore favored by many examinations both at home and abroad.However,Chinese students tend to perform poorly in English writing.The paper randomly chooses 30 compositions from sophomores from a Beijing university and picks out the syntactic errors,which can hardly be corrected merely by reference books and is therefore of great value.These errors are classified into eight types and the reasons are put forward in order for students to avoid them in future studies.
文摘Lexical chunks,as one of the most important units with the feature of both grammar and vocabulary in a language use,as the smallest unit of language input,memory,storage and output,has a very broad application prospect in teaching college English writing.Lexical chunk is semi-refined language,which can be used as a whole stored in the memory,and can be extracted directly in use.Lexical chunks can effectively improve processing efficiency of the language resource information,alleviate learners ' timed writing pressure,overcome the influence of negative transfer of native language,to improve the students' writing fluency,accuracy and vitality.
文摘In recent years,more and more students relay on universal composition templates.Students believe that the"universal composition template"can cope with all kinds of English tests.How the pros and cons of writing methods seem to put things right once and for all?How’s enlightening significance to English teaching?In this paper,based on the two language acquisition theory and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the composition template,some suggestion are given to the students to improve their English writing level.
文摘English writing is the college students’synthetical application about the knowledge of English.English writing,however,is the weak segment of the college students'English learning all the time.Based on the researches home and abroad,the paper makes an implicational study on interlanguage fossilization in English writing of Chinese college students.Though probing the causes of fossilization in English writing,the paper proposes some measures to reduce the fossilization.In the chapter one,the paper introduces simply the interlanguage fossilization.In the chapter two,the paper analyzes college students English writing and get the causal factors of fossilization:unfavorite learning motivation of students,ineffective feedback to errors,interference of the mother tongue.Then,at the last chapter,the paper put up some measures to overcome and avoid the fossilization in college students'English writing:promoting students'motivation,providing right feedback,avoiding mother tongue interference.
文摘How to cultivate college students' ability to output their thoughts in writing accurately, fluently and efficiently deserves a higher priority in College English teaching. This paper carries out an experimental study to explore the effectiveness of facilitating college students' writing proficiency by incorporating the lexical approach into College English lessons, and thereby propose its pedagogical implications.
文摘We focused on the e-assessment in college English writing issue from an online assessment tool perspective. Different from previous inquiries, this research addressed the importance of e-assessment in the study of college English writing. In particular, we aim to examine the importance of the e-assessment. We start with a brief introduction of e-assessment. An additional discussion of the use of e-assessment is also provided. We end the study with the conclusion that e-assessment plays an important role in college English writing. We identify in our study that the forms and the effectiveness of assessment in writhing have direct effect on learners' understanding of the curriculum of college English writing and determine their capacity to make advances in college English writing. As a result, we can propose that e-assessment plays a critical role in the learning experience in college English writing.
文摘The teaching process of English writing in the colleges can be carried out with more effective and innovative approaches in the network milieu,and the concept of collaborative learning can also become the basic teaching philosophy of English writing.The teaching conditions of English writing in some colleges and universities were analyzed.In general,the overall teaching conditions suffer from many deficiencies,which become the aspects for developing English writing teaching activities based on collaborative learning in the network milieu.Achieving the teaching outcomes of either collaborative English writing or English writing on the basis of collaborative learning is not easy.This paper will analyze the difficulty of college English writing teaching based on collaborative learning in the network milieu,and put forward specific suggestions for teaching.
文摘Writing is one of the difficulties in English teaching,and it is a measure of students’mastery of English words,words and sentences.However,students generally find English writing difficult.Therefore,cultivating students’English writing ability is an important topic in current English teaching.There are various ways of cultivating writing ability,which can be summed up as follows:leading students to learn by themselves,cultivating students’ability to apply knowledge comprehensively,improving teachers’classroom language artistry,and emphasizing students’hard work in basic skills.
文摘Considering the importance of my country’s economic structure and cultivating extroverted talents,it is necessary to improve the level of English writing in college English writing teaching,life,and work.There are still some sudden problems in teaching.In order to improve the English writing level of large-character students,we must work hard to solve the outstanding problems in English writing teaching,so as to improve the accuracy of college English writing.
文摘The reform of college English should focus on the ways to improve the practicing ability. This ability should be based on the improvement of students, which is the fundamental aim of reform on the college English. In order to cope with this problem, "flipped classroom"has many advantages. By Giving definitions to the "flipped classroom", this dissertation analyzed the differences between the regular class and the "flipped classroom" and carried out a new way to improve the reading and writing course: we can take advantage of multimedia and new internet technology.
文摘One major objective in the teaching of college English writing is to help students master basic language skills, in the hope that students will finally learn to write passably well in English. In keeping with the concept that a language is a huge system, a cognitive approach to college English writing aims at the link and association of various language elements to help to inspire the formation of the linguistic instinct on the part of the students Based on the practical teaching practice, ways are recommended to coordinate various elements of a sentence, including "vowel spectrum", "sentence analyzing spectrum", and "focus in context"