Mini-saga, a brand-new writing genre, is a short story with exactly 50 words, which can be instructed with process genre approach in Chinese college EFL writing classes. Process genre approach emphasizes both the know...Mini-saga, a brand-new writing genre, is a short story with exactly 50 words, which can be instructed with process genre approach in Chinese college EFL writing classes. Process genre approach emphasizes both the knowledge of context, especially the purpose for writing and skills in using language. Guided by the approach, students need to consider how to achieve certain social purposes in context with appropriate language and structure while composing mini-sagas. Detailed instruction procedures can be designed to instruct students to work out mini-sagas, which can arouse their interest and motivation in English writing, encourage their writing innovation and originality, develop their writing skills, and dig their writing potentials.展开更多
The essay explains why the writing skill is often perceived to be the most difficult language skill to master; to what extent can a genre approach to teaching writing help students master the skill of writing compare ...The essay explains why the writing skill is often perceived to be the most difficult language skill to master; to what extent can a genre approach to teaching writing help students master the skill of writing compare briefly to other skills such as product approach and process approach; and introduce a new approach process-genre approach.展开更多
Recently,there has been growing attention on English teaching and learning in China.Writing plays a large part in theimprovement of English learning.Raimes(1983:6)suggests that a variety of approaches to the teaching ...Recently,there has been growing attention on English teaching and learning in China.Writing plays a large part in theimprovement of English learning.Raimes(1983:6)suggests that a variety of approaches to the teaching of writing have been devel-oped in accordance with how teachers think writing is learned.Although,Badger and White(2000)claims that product,process,and genre approaches to writing haves their strengths and weaknesses and the three approaches are complementary.Consideringthe specific situation of English writing teaching and learning in China,the employment of process approach into senior Englishcourse book design will be appropriate for development of high school students’writing.High school students in China rely a lot onteachers’guidance and treat writing as a task in isolation.Process approach,which concerns more of how ideas are developed dur-ing process of writing,is beneficial for students in terms of fostering independent thinking ability and making full use of writing as avaluable learning tool.展开更多
文摘Mini-saga, a brand-new writing genre, is a short story with exactly 50 words, which can be instructed with process genre approach in Chinese college EFL writing classes. Process genre approach emphasizes both the knowledge of context, especially the purpose for writing and skills in using language. Guided by the approach, students need to consider how to achieve certain social purposes in context with appropriate language and structure while composing mini-sagas. Detailed instruction procedures can be designed to instruct students to work out mini-sagas, which can arouse their interest and motivation in English writing, encourage their writing innovation and originality, develop their writing skills, and dig their writing potentials.
文摘The essay explains why the writing skill is often perceived to be the most difficult language skill to master; to what extent can a genre approach to teaching writing help students master the skill of writing compare briefly to other skills such as product approach and process approach; and introduce a new approach process-genre approach.
文摘Recently,there has been growing attention on English teaching and learning in China.Writing plays a large part in theimprovement of English learning.Raimes(1983:6)suggests that a variety of approaches to the teaching of writing have been devel-oped in accordance with how teachers think writing is learned.Although,Badger and White(2000)claims that product,process,and genre approaches to writing haves their strengths and weaknesses and the three approaches are complementary.Consideringthe specific situation of English writing teaching and learning in China,the employment of process approach into senior Englishcourse book design will be appropriate for development of high school students’writing.High school students in China rely a lot onteachers’guidance and treat writing as a task in isolation.Process approach,which concerns more of how ideas are developed dur-ing process of writing,is beneficial for students in terms of fostering independent thinking ability and making full use of writing as avaluable learning tool.
