In recent years, although college students have acquired ahigh level of proficiency in English reading, they have made verylittle advancement in English writing. This is due to the factthat inadequate importance is at...In recent years, although college students have acquired ahigh level of proficiency in English reading, they have made verylittle advancement in English writing. This is due to the factthat inadequate importance is attached to writing in the teachingof English, and that students have rather vague ideas about therole of writing in foreign language learning and about the differ-ent discourse patterns existing between English and Chinese.Thus, this paper suggests that, in order to improve students’writing ability, two ways be adopted to raise students’ awarenessof learning to write: 1) integrating the product-oriented ap-proach with the process-oriented approach; 2) using students’reading as a writing source.展开更多
IntroductionWriting in English for Chinese students can be both difficult and challenging.Most of them lack ideasfor writing and knowledge about how to write.Furthermore,students in some universities learn verylittle ...IntroductionWriting in English for Chinese students can be both difficult and challenging.Most of them lack ideasfor writing and knowledge about how to write.Furthermore,students in some universities learn verylittle in their writing courses about methods of writing effectively.They may need more input andguidance in order to write both easily and naturally.In order to solve these problems,the first thing to dois to examine the writing background in some Chinese universities.展开更多
文摘In recent years, although college students have acquired ahigh level of proficiency in English reading, they have made verylittle advancement in English writing. This is due to the factthat inadequate importance is attached to writing in the teachingof English, and that students have rather vague ideas about therole of writing in foreign language learning and about the differ-ent discourse patterns existing between English and Chinese.Thus, this paper suggests that, in order to improve students’writing ability, two ways be adopted to raise students’ awarenessof learning to write: 1) integrating the product-oriented ap-proach with the process-oriented approach; 2) using students’reading as a writing source.
文摘IntroductionWriting in English for Chinese students can be both difficult and challenging.Most of them lack ideasfor writing and knowledge about how to write.Furthermore,students in some universities learn verylittle in their writing courses about methods of writing effectively.They may need more input andguidance in order to write both easily and naturally.In order to solve these problems,the first thing to dois to examine the writing background in some Chinese universities.
