—– Flying training leading to junior high school English composition teaching “live”

July 16, 2010
[Summary] the ability to write in English academic abilities to develop an important aspect of the structure of English words in English writing is that people use to record, dissemination of information and ideas expressed in the language of communication activities. “The new curriculum standards,” particularly outstanding “can do things in English”, with particular emphasis on the internalization of language, this paper aims to present the status of junior high school student writing and the problems of starting depth teaching writing strategies and how the teaching to read input; ladder training; active way of progressive thinking, writing to train students to use written English to express their ideas.
[off key word] issues to read Training Writing thinking
a student exercises the problems
as English learners in China by the learning content, learning environment and teaching methods of the constraints, leading to students writing in English when there are many problems. See below this student work:
Smoking
Most of people know smoking was bad for our healthy. But now some students think smoking is a very cool thing and start smoking.
I think cigarette is a very bad thing for our healthy. Cigarette has something bad like nicotine. Nicotine is a kind of dangerous thing because it bad to Lung. If you think smoking it cool thing and just for fun. and smoking over three times. After that, you will be addicted to and can stop smoking specially to young people.
For your healthy, I think you should be away from cigarette. If you stop smoking, it both good for yourself and your family. exercises above this there are some problems as follows:
1.1. dull expression, the lack of ideological,

students vulnerable to the impact of life experiences, especially the mountainous students learn because of its relatively narrow channels of social information; life experience very simple and obvious; materials in a number of topics from real life and needs of students; teachers in the teaching process some with ideological topics adopted an evasive attitude, such as: Do you think it cool to smoke in public? If I had enough money … … Learn to smile, etc. These factors have led to students in the composition can not fully express a certain ideology.
1.2. lack of vocabulary development, the lack of accuracy in writing
practice, the lack of the necessary vocabulary development, and can not clearly appropriate to express their ideas, present new lesson standard textbooks contained language materials is limited, each module is a separate topic, and prepared in a manner non-spiral, synchronization of reading material can not keep up, leading to reproduce low frequency words, writing can lead to higher flexibility in the use of some words and phrases to express a lower level language simple, naive addition, a lack of accuracy of the vocabulary used, as in the above students ork in this: Most of people know smoking was bad for our healthy; in the students works are often met with to this sentence: He replied my letter.They robbed his watch.No matter what I do, I can rise my grade.He is a high man.Yesterday had a big wind, etc.

1.3 the use of a single sentence, the lack of richness
students when writing simple sentences and multi-compound sentence, sentence structure is mainly “SVO” or “SVP” structure, the article becomes monotonous, sentence the use of passive voice is not divided, multi-use statement word order, tense grasp on is also less accurate here for two reasons: one English-language students is caused by different structural characteristics of wrong sentences when writing; wrong sentence the main reason, of course, we can not ignore the another reason is that the utilitarian education, many teachers fear that students in the teaching of writing error, do not encourage students to use some of the classic, complex sentence, no idioms, proverbs, and the use of rhetoric. Test article in the evaluation of a small error in the primary language of the standards in this thought under the guidance of students work will become more “poor”, thus much less writing for the use of language internalized.
1.4. language of the order of chaos, the lack of logic
students writing ideas is not clear, the internal structure of writing, the center effect and paragraph clues to the layout is not logical. students In the essay without layering; to express their inner thoughts without pause, turn, stressed that the expansion and sublimation. Article is basically a single sentence from a number of synthetic trouble, pay no attention to the context of contact conjunctions, adverbs, prepositional phrases and the use of parentheses, etc., the basic structure does not have the ability to segment, even if there is some ability to structure section, when the number of segments in the structure important vocabulary mastery and application of the transition also becomes extremely shallow. .
1.5. Casual writing habits, lack of normative
clearly a considerable number of students can not write, letter writing is not standardized, not the proper use of uppercase and lowercase letters, punctuation marks in English , and correctly so the word migration. In the initial stage does not develop good writing habits, thus affecting the quality of written expression. Writing is writing the basic routine, also constitutes an element of a beautiful article.
Second, read the guide — develop writing ideas
English written expression is an English language course from the law point of view of language development, to be accurate, precise and standardized use of written language, students must first make a lot of sustained accumulation of only the “thick” plot to “thin “made in many English exercises, we will find a lot of” China “in English sentences. The reason is because the students lack English language sense. an authentic English exercises is based on the specific basis of English freedom to generate ideas of. to form a sense of language and thinking in English will have to develop through reading. “study break rolls, getting a God” phrase famous language learning profound interpretation of: reading – writing the source. writing is to improve the readability of the most Best way (field Paterson, 1993), while the current English language teaching materials contained in a limited number of pure English class is still the main grammar and vocabulary, students are exposed to is still an isolated words and grammar, so that the students rapid accumulation of knowledge of English is quite a lot of negative and only large corpus of input, to form their own tacit knowledge, the need to more easily extracted, so that “paid off.”
2.1. to focus on the input corpus of “quantity”
order written in English should have the first written expression of a certain vocabulary, and a large number of languages ??is the accumulation of material input the main way the word in English listening, speaking, reading and writing basic skills in listening and reading is the process of language input, the output language speaking and writing process, since writing is a process output, you need enough corpus input, the input corpus written in a direct impact on output quality.
2.2. to focus on the input corpus of “quality”.
corpus in the choice of reading when they pay attention to “quality” and “quantity” of the relationship between the teacher in the choice of reading material superb selection when; language specification; structured; taste profound article, to make students appreciate the excellent work by these and reading from the distillation of ideas; to absorb nutrients; accumulated language experiences over time, generate a sense of English language is a natural the.
2.3. to focus on the input corpus of “analysis.” students already have some reading ability, based on reading materials for teachers to focus on the analysis of analysis of the macro-structure of the article read; the idea of ??writing; at the same time to guide students to accumulate a lot of classic sentences thus obtained to some extent, the perceptions of English writing.
three, classification training — get writing
Writing teaching should be planned, systematic, can not engage in assault exam, hoping that students have a short time in writing qualitative leap is unrealistic. “Standard” on the ability to write goals set to follow the laws and language learning characteristics of students at different stages, proposed a three-level requirements: three: to refer to an example or write simple sentences with picture; four : able to write notes or simple letters. five: tips for drafting or modify according to a small writing, writing to make the formation of a virtuous circle, not a “jump” of teaching strategies. To classification training, reinforce the writing foundation.
3.1. Sentences — writing training “base”
a little on the current junior high school English composition analysis, not difficult to find Students in this area are very common error of its very serious, the reason for this situation there are two points: First, teachers do not know the place. two. the lack of scientific training and many teachers only concerned with writing English words, while words lack of awareness of the importance of the use of, especially now with the “GO FOR IT” large teaching vocabulary, but reproduction rate is very low, resulting in many students in the writing difficult to extract; teachers in vocabulary teaching should be present to take a more sentences, pictures Examples of teaching, etc., so that students develop a writing habit of writing words accurately, while many of the students in writing, the syntax error is common, such as: Now some students think smoking is a very cool thing and start smoking. [Now some students think smoking is a very cool thing and then start smoking.] I think cigarette is a very bad thing for our healthy. [I think cigarette is very bad for our health] When rains, I usually stay at home 【When it rains, I usually stay at home.] There are 60% of the students think they should have a good rest at weekends. [60% of the students think they should have a good rest at weekends.] In addition to the above error , the fact there are many teachers in the teaching of writing should be different for the English sentence, more words and sentences and sentence conversion training.
3.2 trained — writing a paragraph ” core “
content monotonous writing of many students, mainly because there is no expansion in the paragraph writing, teachers in the transition between sentences and paragraphs using transitional words to make the training in English in junior high school transition words following are some: 1) the transition time: now / soon / later on … 2) the purpose of the transition: so that / so as to / in order that … 3) results the transition: so / therefore / as a result … 4) more transition: in the same way / just like … 5) emphasize the transition: in fact / without questions … 6) summary of the transition: finally / at last / as we know … 7) For example the transition: for example / for instance … teachers through the transition term training to promote the expansion of the paragraph. In addition, you can also rewrite the paragraph; extended writing; way of speaking and writing training.
3.3 trained — essay writing “key”
“GO FOR IT” is the topic of the presentation materials as the core concept of each unit has a theme with the topic of the Fan, teachers can take advantage of this article for parodies training, through weekly The text parodies, such as: According to the I used to be afraid of the dark. (new target third-Unit2) wrote: My past life / My childhood. According to What would you do? (new target junior Unit4) wrote If I were an Olympics volunteer, … … “GO FOR IT” materials where each unit has a Imitative training, the students have some basic words and sentences capabilities, through the different themes, genres of articles for a large number of parodies training can make initial writing students.
3.4. retouching — writing checks “upgrade”
in the teaching of writing, teachers are often easier to ignore the students awareness of the culture change Modify the exercises is to improve the students to enhance writing skills very important aspect. change the traditional marking by the teacher evaluation methods, allow students more involved in this process, the student can self-assessment, peer assessment team to each other correction, the final evaluation by teachers such a step, in this interaction to foster the use of more extensive evaluation of the sentence; proper use of complex sentences; used properly the sentence structure of consciousness. Modified form in the habit of writing, Akira is the language of their own style. Teachers from the heavy task of marking freed, so the time to devote to creative ideas guide, representative of the essay questions in the evaluation.
four, flying ideas — activate writing of thinking
corpus of knowledge students have a lot of reserves, after a period of vocabulary and sentence training, but really so that students begin to create an independent, need an active thinking process, in the classroom teaching process, can be a lot of Set close to the student life topics, such as: Should teenagers be allowed to choose their own clothes? / Which is more popular, modern music or classical music? / Do you think it good for animals to live in the zoo? in the classroom the students to free state, the positive and negative debate, to provide evidence to show their own unique point of view, etc. induce collective wisdom; to the students to imagine the space to think, to activate the students creative thinking and inspiration in a lot of thought to get writing material, made in oral expression good language preparation to enable students to feel a creative impulse, a successful opportunity to show themselves.
writing is short term, to develop basic skills up a language, the teaching of writing there is no fixed pattern, and accumulate, work in common, to avoid the quick success. only in the precise use of vocabulary, sentence based on the use of solid training, increase the input language materials, and create opportunities in the classroom teaching writing to activate thinking, eliminate students fear of difficulty, “the writing emotions, through words sentence training – to increase the corpus input – active writing thinking – focusing on evaluation methods of teaching strategies to systematically solve the current problem of junior high school English writing difficult.
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